Handbook of phenomenology and medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Toombs, S. Kay, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001]
Series:Philosophy and medicine ; v. 68.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : phenomenology and medicine
  • Temporality and illness : a phenomenological perspective
  • The lifeworld and scientific interpretation
  • Medicine and the phenomonological method
  • The phenomenology of health and illness
  • Disease : the phenomenonological and conceptual center of practical-clinical medicine
  • Thinking about medicine
  • 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
  • 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
  • Grasping the existential anatomy : the role of bodily empathy in clinical communication
  • The many faces of the clinic : a Levinasian view
  • Focusing of the lived experience : the evolution of clinical method in Western medicine
  • The phenomenon of care
  • The phenomenon of suffering and its relationship to pain
  • 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
  • Professional practice and 'doing phenomenology'
  • From dis-ability to difference : conceptual and methodological issues in the study of physical disability