Feminist phenomenology and medicine / edited by Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Folkmarson Käll.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zeiler, Kristin, 1973-

Käll, Lisa Folkmarson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene--Social aspects.

Women.

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Feminist theory.

Feminism--Health aspects.

Feminism.

Medical care--Sex differences.

Medical care.

Phenomenological psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""1 Why Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine?""; ""Phenomenology and Medicine""; ""Feminist Phenomenology""; ""Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine in This Volume""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""2 The Illness Experience: A Feminist Phenomenological Perspective""; ""Illness and the Illness Experience""; ""Illness v. Health""; ""Illness/Disease""; ""Toward the Illness Experience""; ""The View from Without: Some Examples from ALS""; ""Illness Experience and Phenomenology""; ""Beyond the View from Within and the View from Without""

""Toward a Phenomenology of Illness Experience""""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""3 Visceral Phenomenology: Organ Transplantation, Identity, and Bioethics""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""4 Communal Pushing: Childbirth and Intersubjectivity""; ""Merleau-Ponty�s Contribution""; ""Feminist Readings of Merleau-Ponty""; ""Merleau-Ponty and the Communal""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""5 Phenomenology, Cosmetic Surgery, and Complicity""; ""The Problem of Complicity""; ""Merleau-Ponty and the Lived Body""; ""Norms, Incorporation, and Expression""

""Toward a Phenomenology of Complicity""""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""6 Uncosmetic Surgeries in an Age of Normativity""; ""A Visit to the Dentist""; ""The Three Ns: The Natural, the Normal, and the Normative""; ""Rhetorics of Enhancement in Contemporary Bioethics""; ""Rethinking Enhancement""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""7 “BIID�? Queer (Dis)Orientations and the Phenomenology of “Home�""; ""BIID: What�s in a Name?""; ""The Clint Hallam International Surgical Soap Opera""; ""Reconfiguring the Phenomenology of Home""; ""Notes""; ""References""

""8 Sexed Embodiment in Atypical Pubertal Development: Intersubjectivity, Excorporation, and the Importance of Making Space for Difference""""Introduction""; ""Female Bodily Self-Awareness Reconsidered""; ""Incorporation, Excorporation, and Emotions in Shared Space""; ""Sexed Style of Being: Rethinking Female Embodiment""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""9 Reassigning Ambiguity: Intersex, Biomedicine, and the Question of Harm""; ""The Body Schema and Its “I Can�""; ""Being Seen, Being Loved: Conditions of Human Emergence""; ""Jim�s Story""; ""A New Man, the Same Kid""

""Toward an Embodied Ethics""""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""10 Feminism, Phenomenology, and Hormones""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""11 The Body Uncanny: Alienation, Illness, and Anorexia Nervosa""; ""The Alien Body""; ""Phenomenology of Illness""; ""Anorexia Nervosa""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""12 Toward a Phenomenology of Disfigurement""; ""Introduction""; ""Embodiment as Social Construction: Liberating and Unsettling""; ""The Social Value of Disfigurements""; ""Embodied Self-Experience: An Individual and a Social Affair""

""Phenomenology of Disfigurement in Practice""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438450087

1438450087

OCLC:

871257292