Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine

Kristin Zeiler, Lisa Folkmarson Käll (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2014
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-5007-0 (ISBN)

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

Situated at the intersection of phenomenology of medicine and feminist phenomenology, this volume provides insights into medical practices such as surgical operations, organ transplants, dentistry, midwifery, and psychiatry. The contributors make clear the relevance of feminist phenomenology to the fields of medicine and health by highlighting difference, vulnerability, and volatility as central dimensions of human experience rather than deviations. It also further vitalizes the field of phenomenology by bringing it into conversation with a range of different materials—including case studies, fiction, and other forms of narrative—and shedding new light on issues like bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification. The volume's focus on concrete experience develops and sharpens the methodological tools and conceptual framework of phenomenology and makes it an excellent resource for scholars, students, and medical practitioners alike.

Kristin Zeiler is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden, and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala University, Sweden. Folkmarson Käll is Docent of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Division of Health and Society at Linköping University, Sweden. She is the editor of Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives.

1. Why Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine?
Lisa Folkmarson Käll and Kristin Zeiler

2. The Illness Experience: A Feminist Phenomenological Perspective
Linda Fisher

3. Visceral Phenomenology: Organ Transplantation, Identity, and Bioethics
Margrit Shildrick

4. Communal Pushing: Childbirth and Intersubjectivity
Sarah LaChance Adams and Paul Burcher

5. Phenomenology, Cosmetic Surgery, and Complicity
Erik Malimqvist

6. Uncosmetic Surgeries in an Age of Normativity
Gail Weiss

7. “BIID”? Queer (Dis)Orientations and the Phenomenology of “Home”
Nikki Sullivan

8. Sexed Embodiment in Atypical Pubertal Development: Intersubjectivity, Excorporation, and the Importance of Making Space for Difference
Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Guntram

9. Reassigning Ambiguity: Intersex, Biomedicine, and the Question of Harm
Ellen K. Feder

10. Feminism, Phenomenology, and Hormones
Lanei M. Rodemeyer

11. The Body Uncanny: Alienation, Illness, and Anorexia Nervosa
Fredrik Svenaeus

12. Toward a Phenomenology of Disfigurement
Jenny Slatman and Gili Yaron

13. “She’s Research!” Exposure, Epistemophilia, and Ethical Perception through Mike Nichol’s Wit
Lisa Folkmarson Käll

14. Anaesthetics of Existence
Cressida J. Heyes

15. Wandering in the Unhomelike: Chronic Depression, Inequality, and the Recovery Imperative
Abby Wilkerson

List of Contributors
Index

Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Ästhetische und Plastische Chirurgie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4384-5007-9 / 1438450079
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-5007-0 / 9781438450070
Zustand	Neuware