Fredrik Svenaeus
Why Do People Want to Die? The Meaning of Life from the Perspective of Euthanasia
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Bio
Fredrik Svenaeus is Professor of Philosophy at the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Södertörn University, Sweden. His main research areas are philosophy of medicine, bioethics, medical humanities and philosophical anthropology. Current research projects focus on existential questions in association with various medical technologies and on the phenomenology of suffering in medicine and bioethics. He has published widely in these fields, the most recent book is Phenomenological Bioethics: Medical Technologies, Human Suffering, and the Meaning of Being Alive (2017, Routledge).