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.