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Body matters : a phenomenology of sickness, disease, and illness / James Aho and Kevin Aho.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aho, James A., 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Phenomenology.
- Social medicine.
- Medical anthropology.
- Existentialism.
- Sociology, Medical.
- Disease--psychology.
- Philosophy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Existentialism.
- Sociology, Medical.
- Disease--psychology.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 195 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2008]
- Summary:
- Following the core principle of phenomenology as a return "to the things themselves," Body Matters examines bodily afflictions from three different standpoints: from society in general, which interprets them as "sicknesses"; from the medical professions, which interpret them as "diseases"; and from the patients themselves, who interpret them as "illnesses." By drawing on a crucial distinction in German phenomenology between two senses of the body-the quantifiable, material body (Korper) and the lived-body (Leib)-the authors explore the ways in which sickness, disease, and illness are socially and historically experienced and constructed.
- The authors make their case by drawing on examples from multiple disciplines and cultures as well as cases from Euro-American history. The intent is to unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions that readers may have about body troubles. These assumptions are widely held by medical and allied health professionals as well, and by many sociologists and philosophers of health and illness. To this end, Body Matters does not simply deconstruct prejudices of mainstream biomedicine; it also constructively envisions more humane and artful forms of therapy.
- Contents:
- Foundations
- The lived-body
- The accelerated body and its pathologies
- The sicknesses of society
- The diseases of medicine
- The agonies of illness
- Medicine and phenomenology
- Recovering therapy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780739126981
- 0739126989
- OCLC:
- 214064732
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