Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine

Name: Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine
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ISBN: 9781402002007

ISBN-10: 1402002009

ISBN-13: 9781402002007

Edition: 2001

Authors: S. Kay Toombs

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As the fields of philosophy of medicine and bioethics have developed in the United States, the philosophical perspective of phenomenology has been largely ignored. Yet, the central conviction that informs this volume is that phenomenology provides extraordinary insights into many of the issues that are directly addressed within the world of medicine. Such issues include: the nature of medicine itself; the distinction between immediate experience and scientific conceptualization; the nature of the body - and the implications of embodiment in the realm of clinical practice; the meaning of health, illness and disease; the problem of intersubjectivity - particularly with respect to achieving…

Book details

List price: $209.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 12/31/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 497
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Phenomenology and Medicine




Phenomenology and Medicine


Temporality and Illness: A Phenomenological Perspective



The Lifeworld and Scientific Interpretation



Medicine and the Phenomenological Method



The Phenomenology of Health and Illness



The Phenomenological and Conceptual Center of Practical-Clinical Medicine



Thinking About Medicine




The Body


Dimensions of Embodiment: Body Image and Body Schema in Medical Contexts



Female Embodiment and Clinical Practice



Emotion and Embodiment within the Medical World



The Body, Music, and Healing




Lived Experience


Experiencing Illness Through Storytelling



Reflections on Bodily Change: The Lived Experience of Disability



The Lived Experience of Pain in the Context of Clinical Practice



The Lived Experience of Mental Illness




Clinical Practice


Grasping the Existential Anatomy: The Role of Bodily Empathy in Clinical Communication



The Many Faces of the Clinic: A Levinasian View



Focusing on Lived Experience: The Evolution of Clinical Method in Western Medicine



The Phenomenon of Care



The Phenomenon of Suffering and its Relationship to Pain




Medical Ethics


Imagining a Fetus: Insights From Talking with Pregnant Women About Their Decisions To Undergo Open-Uterine Fetal Surgery



On Bodily Autonomy



Medical Feeding: Applying Husserl and Merleau-Ponty




Research


Professional Practice and `Doing Phenomenology'



From Dis-ability to Difference: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Study of Physical Disability; C. Papadimitriou


Notes on Contributors


Index