Abstract I argue that patients who suffer genital surgery to ‘disambiguate’ their sexual anatomy, a practice labelled ‘intersex mutilation’ (IGM) by intersex advocates, can be understood as victims of hermeneutical injustice in the sense elaborated Miranda Fricker. This claim is clarified and defended from two objections. further particular subset cases IGM-based instantiate novel form injustic...

the hermeneutic circle articulated by different hermeneuticans in various versions is one of the basic problems in modern hermeneutics. romanic hermeneutics introduced the circle as a methodological principle, but in philosophical hermeneutics the circle has ontological dimensions and regards as a process of understanding. heidegger believes that hermeneutic circle reflects dasein’s existential...

Meaningful group structures are co-created within the long-term outpatient psychotherapy group through a hermeneutical interaction between structure and immediate experience of structure by individuals embedded in personal and collective contexts. Co-created meanings expand original group- and self-understandings and further evolve structures that are stable yet do not exist independently of th...

Aim The aim of the study was to describe how nurse anaesthetist students experienced patient dignity in perioperative practice. Design A hermeneutical design and the critical incident technique were used to obtain experiences from practice. Method In the Autumn of 2015, after participating in a mandatory lecture on ethics, 23 nurse anaesthetist students reported their experiences and interp...