Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Phenomenology and Medicine; S.K. Toombs. Section One: Phenomenology and Medicine. Temporality and Illness: A Phenomenological Perspective; J.B. Brough. The Lifeworld and Scientific Interpretation; P.A. Heelan. Medicine and the Phenomenological Method; F.C. Waksler. The Phenomenology of Health and Illness; F. Svenaeus. The Phenomenological and Conceptual Center of Practical-Clinical Medicine; P. Sundström. Thinking About Medicine; R.M. Zaner. Section Two: The Body. Dimensions of Embodiment: Body Image and Body Schema in Medical Contexts; S. Gallagher. Female Embodiment and Clinical Practice; M. Connolly. Emotion and Embodiment within the Medical World; G.A. Mazis. The Body, Music, and Healing; B. Wilshire. Section Three: Lived Experience. Experiencing Illness Through Storytelling; A.W. Frank. Reflections on Bodily Change: The Lived Experience of Disability; S.K. Toombs. The Lived Experience of Pain in the Context of Clinical Practice; I. Madjar. The Lived Experience of Mental Illness; J.A. Walton. Section Four: Clinical Practice. Grasping the Existential Anatomy: The Role of Bodily Empathy in Clinical Communication; C.E. Rudebeck. The Many Faces of the Clinic: A Levinasian View; P. Komesaroff. Focusing on Lived Experience: The Evolution of Clinical Method in Western Medicine; I.R. McWhinney. The Phenomenon of Care; P. Benner. The Phenomenon of Suffering and its Relationship to Pain; E.J. Cassell. Section Five: Medical Ethics. Imagining a Fetus: Insights From Talking with Pregnant Women About Their Decisions To Undergo Open-Uterine Fetal Surgery; M.J. Bliton. On Bodily Autonomy;C. Mackenzie. Medical Feeding: Applying Husserl and Merleau-Ponty; M.C. Brannigan. Section Six: Research. Professional Practice and `Doing Phenomenology'; M. van Manen. From Dis-ability to Difference: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Study of Physical Disability; C. Papadimitriou. Notes on Contributors. Index.

"The style of presentation is engaging and will be appreciated by the intelligent reader who has an interest in issues that are important to health care, refreshingly approached through perspectives from within phenomenology. A training in philosophy is not a requirement for the contents of this volume to be appreciated." (Elizabeth Pask in Nursing Ethics, 9:5 (2002)