All Things Considered: Accounting for Omissions in Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

The work of phenomenologists of medicine has been dedicated to re-centering the patient’s first-person perspective in discussions of illness experience. Thus, the phenomenology of medicine engages in the work of accounting for what has remained neglected or unexamined in dominant models of medical thinking. The scholars represented in this issue share in this recuperative impulse to uncover what has been omitted or overlooked in their respective ethical debates. In this issue, authors introduce or re-evaluate ideas and perspectives that deepen discussions of the phenomenology of illness, transgender media representation, the limits of the duty to treat, and compensation for blood plasma.