Color, Healthcare and Bioethics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ten Have, Henk, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2025.

Summary:

This book explores the profound, yet often overlooked, role of color in healthcare and bioethics, arguing that color is far more than a visual or aesthetic element--it actively shapes human experience, perception, and ethical reasoning. Traditionally regarded as secondary to objective medical observations or rational ethical debates, color has been marginalized in these fields, considered subjective and inconsequential. However, this book reveals that color is critical in diagnostic and therapeutic practices and that it subconsciously influences moral interpretations in bioethics. Through examples like the 'blue hour'--a time of day associated with melancholy and creativity--readers are invited to consider color not just as a physical phenomenon explained by wavelengths and visual physiology, but as a medium rich with emotional and metaphorical meaning. From 'feeling blue' to seeing the world in 'black and white', color conveys complex messages that inform our perceptions of health, morality, and identity. By bridging the gap between science, emotion, and ethics, this book illuminates how colors impact our worldviews, urging readers to consider the subtle yet significant ways that color influences our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

About the Author

List of Illustrations

1. Introduction: Color, Healthcare and Bioethics

1.1 The Experience of Color

1.2 Color and Medicine

1.3 Color and Ethics

1.4 The Outline of the Book

1.5 The Nature of Color

1.6 The Power of Color

1.7 Color and Healthcare

1.8 Color and Bioethics

1.9 A Colorful Bioethics

1.10 Conclusion

References

2. The Nature of Color

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Traditional View

2.3 The Scientific Revolution

2.4 Primary and Secondary Qualities

2.5 Philosophies of Color

2.6 Color Relationism

2.7 Ecological Theories

2.8 Color Adverbialism

2.9 The Phenomenological Perspective

2.10 Conclusion

3. The Power of Color

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Color Language

3.3 The Affective Power of Color

3.4 The Meaning of Color

3.5 Color, Emotions and Feelings

3.6 Color, Human Behavior and Performance

3.7 Practical Implications

3.8 Conclusion

4. Color and Healthcare

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Disease

4.3 Diagnosis

4.4 The Color of Medication

4.5 Pigments as Pharmaceuticals

4.6 The Pharmaceutical Revolution

4.7 Color Therapy

4.8 Healing Environments

4.9 Conclusion

5. Color and Bioethics

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Colors and Normativity

5.3 Color and Rationality

5.4 Moral Associations of Black and White

5.5 Color and Race

5.6 Skin Color

5.7 Color-Based Hierarchies

5.8 Racial Science

5.9 The Persistence of Race and Racism

5.10 Racism and Healthcare

5.11 Racism and Bioethics

5.12 The Whiteness of Bioethics

5.13 Conclusion

6. A Colorful Bioethics

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Race as Bioethical Issue

6.3 Race under the Bioethical Microscope

6.4 Racism as Bioethical Issue

6.5 The Color of Bioethics.

6.7 Ethics and Aesthetics

6.8 Moral Imagination

6.9 Expansion of Bioethical Discourse

6.10 Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-80511-483-2

1-80511-484-0

OCLC:

1513235274