Multiple dimensions of embodiment in medical practices

• Published in: Medicine, health care, and philosophy Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 549 - 557
• Main Author: Slatman, Jenny
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.11.2014; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Education; Embodiment; Ethics; Human Body; Humans; Medical Law; Medical practices; Medicine; Ontology; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Medicine; Philosophy, Medical; Scientific Contribution; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Body as object; Phenomenology of the body; Body as subject; I can; Disfigurements

In this paper I explore the various meanings of embodiment from a patient’s perspective. Resorting to phenomenology of health and medicine, I take the idea of ‘lived experience’ as starting point. On the basis of an analysis of phenomenology’s call for bracketing the natural attitude and its reducti...