ANNA MAGDALENA ELSNER
Biographic Data
| ID | 5705419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | ANNA MAGDALENA ELSNER |
| GIVEN NAMES | ANNA MAGDALENA |
| FAMILY NAME | ELSNER |
| SIGNATURE | ELSNER A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St.Gallen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5209-5916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“For an Anne Bert Law”
This article examines how French author Anne Bert, who received euthanasia in Belgium, produced several cultural productions that influenced France’s assisted-dying debate. It therefore highlights the profound impact of individual storytelling on legislative discourse. Primarily through her memoir, blog posts, and open letters, Bert framed her story as part of a universal quest for autonomy and advocated for systemic change. French lawmakers appr…
Language Matters
This essay examines the impact of linguistic choices on the perception and regulation of assisted dying, particularly in Canada. It argues that euphemistic terms like “medical assistance in dying” and its acronym, “MAID,” serve to normalize the practice, potentially obscuring its moral gravity. This contrasts with what is seen in Belgium and the Netherlands, where terms like “euthanasia” are used, as well as in France and the United Kingdom, wher…
Introduction
Between medicine, humanities and the law
Stories about personal experiences of assisted dying, a term comprising both instances when a lethal substance is administered by a physician or by the patient themselves, are frequently cited in law-making processes. These experiences of healthcare systems and the laws governing end-of-life procedures thereby interactively influence the future of medicine at the deathbed. With more countries legalising some form of assisted dying or opening poli…
French Studies and the Medical Humanities
The last ten years have witnessed an extraordinary concentration of activity in Medical Humanities research in a French-language critical and cultural context. This article analyses the breadth and significance of how the field has developed in the French-speaking world and how engagement with French-language sources is shaping a field that, until now, has been dominated by anglophone scholarship.
Medical Humanities in Transition
The languages and cultures of pain
A Philosopher Goes to the Doctor
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Ogien et Ricœur entre sens et souffrance
et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
After Covid-19
Ethical issues raised by the outbreak of COVID-19 have predominantly been addressed through a public health ethics lens. This article proposes that the rising COVID-19 fatalities and the World Health Organization’s failure to include palliative care as part of its guidance on how to maintain essential health services during the pandemic have exposed palliative care as an underlying global crisis. It therefore calls for a different ethical framewo…
Landscapes of care and the enchantment of dying in Edwin Beeler’s Die weisse Arche (2016)
This article examines representations of nature and dying in the Swiss documentary Die weisse Arche (2016) through the lens of Jane Bennett’s critique of Max Weber’s concept of disenchantment. I establish a specific relationship between Edwin Beeler’s film and Bennett’s claim that enchantment is foundational to the ethical life, stressing that Die weisse Arche posits an ethics of end-of-life care motivated by moments of enchantment that emanate f…
Extending the Domain of Care in Philippe Forest
This article explores the connection between care and loss in Philippe Forest’s work by drawing on the etymological origins of care and on contemporary French writing on the ethics of care. On the one hand, care in Forest comes to stand for the technical taking care of a patient in the medical setting as well as for caring for and about his dying child specifically. On the other hand, the practice of writing about the loss of his daughter turns i…
Beyond Medical Paternalism
In A Very Easy Death Simone de Beauvoir documents the illness, hospitalization, and death of her mother Françoise. Critics in the fields of bioethics and the medical humanities have concentrated on the text's paternalistic doctor-patient encounter, which culminates in the withholding of the cancer diagnosis from Beauvoir's mother and entails an unnecessary medical intervention to which the patient never consents. Reviewing the text's reception, t…
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Beyond Medical Paternalism
In A Very Easy Death Simone de Beauvoir documents the illness, hospitalization, and death of her mother Françoise. Critics in the fields of bioethics and the medical humanities have concentrated on the text's paternalistic doctor-patient encounter, which culminates in the withholding of the cancer diagnosis from Beauvoir's mother and entails an unnecessary medical intervention to which the patient never consents. Reviewing the text's reception, t…
Landscapes of care and the enchantment of dying in Edwin Beeler’s Die weisse Arche (2016)
This article examines representations of nature and dying in the Swiss documentary Die weisse Arche (2016) through the lens of Jane Bennett’s critique of Max Weber’s concept of disenchantment. I establish a specific relationship between Edwin Beeler’s film and Bennett’s claim that enchantment is foundational to the ethical life, stressing that Die weisse Arche posits an ethics of end-of-life care motivated by moments of enchantment that emanate f…
Extending the Domain of Care in Philippe Forest
This article explores the connection between care and loss in Philippe Forest’s work by drawing on the etymological origins of care and on contemporary French writing on the ethics of care. On the one hand, care in Forest comes to stand for the technical taking care of a patient in the medical setting as well as for caring for and about his dying child specifically. On the other hand, the practice of writing about the loss of his daughter turns i…
Ogien et Ricœur entre sens et souffrance
et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
After Covid-19
Ethical issues raised by the outbreak of COVID-19 have predominantly been addressed through a public health ethics lens. This article proposes that the rising COVID-19 fatalities and the World Health Organization’s failure to include palliative care as part of its guidance on how to maintain essential health services during the pandemic have exposed palliative care as an underlying global crisis. It therefore calls for a different ethical framewo…
The languages and cultures of pain
A Philosopher Goes to the Doctor
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Medical Humanities in Transition
Language Matters
This essay examines the impact of linguistic choices on the perception and regulation of assisted dying, particularly in Canada. It argues that euphemistic terms like “medical assistance in dying” and its acronym, “MAID,” serve to normalize the practice, potentially obscuring its moral gravity. This contrasts with what is seen in Belgium and the Netherlands, where terms like “euthanasia” are used, as well as in France and the United Kingdom, wher…
Introduction
Between medicine, humanities and the law
Stories about personal experiences of assisted dying, a term comprising both instances when a lethal substance is administered by a physician or by the patient themselves, are frequently cited in law-making processes. These experiences of healthcare systems and the laws governing end-of-life procedures thereby interactively influence the future of medicine at the deathbed. With more countries legalising some form of assisted dying or opening poli…
French Studies and the Medical Humanities
The last ten years have witnessed an extraordinary concentration of activity in Medical Humanities research in a French-language critical and cultural context. This article analyses the breadth and significance of how the field has developed in the French-speaking world and how engagement with French-language sources is shaping a field that, until now, has been dominated by anglophone scholarship.
“For an Anne Bert Law”
This article examines how French author Anne Bert, who received euthanasia in Belgium, produced several cultural productions that influenced France’s assisted-dying debate. It therefore highlights the profound impact of individual storytelling on legislative discourse. Primarily through her memoir, blog posts, and open letters, Bert framed her story as part of a universal quest for autonomy and advocated for systemic change. French lawmakers appr…
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