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Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyConspicuous, Obtrusive and Obstinate: A Phenomenology of the Ill Body

Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy: Conspicuous, Obtrusive and... [Phenomenology can be used to describe the experience of illness by focusing on first-person accounts of what it is like to suffer from a particular illness. By offering a phenomenological framework through which to study illness, this chapter illuminates the experience of illness. The framework consists of four themes that I bring together in order to offer such a phenomenological understanding of illness. The first is Toombs’ analysis of the essential features of illness. The second is Sartre's three orders of the body. The third is the claim that the healthy body is transparent and illness is the loss of this transparency. Finally, using Heidegger's tool analysis, I will suggest that illness is a breakdown of ‘bodily tools.’] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyConspicuous, Obtrusive and Obstinate: A Phenomenology of the Ill Body

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 120)
Editors: Meacham, Darian
Carel, Havi
Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy — May 23, 2015
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
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978-94-017-9869-3
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105 –123
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10.1007/978-94-017-9870-9_7
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Abstract

[Phenomenology can be used to describe the experience of illness by focusing on first-person accounts of what it is like to suffer from a particular illness. By offering a phenomenological framework through which to study illness, this chapter illuminates the experience of illness. The framework consists of four themes that I bring together in order to offer such a phenomenological understanding of illness. The first is Toombs’ analysis of the essential features of illness. The second is Sartre's three orders of the body. The third is the claim that the healthy body is transparent and illness is the loss of this transparency. Finally, using Heidegger's tool analysis, I will suggest that illness is a breakdown of ‘bodily tools.’]

Published: May 23, 2015

Keywords: Body Schema; Illness Experience; Phantom Limb; Healthy Body; Objective Body

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