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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 13 "She's Research!" Exposure, Epistemophilia, and Ethical Perception through Mike Nichols' Wit -- Introduction -- Exposure to Epistemophilia: Exposure of Flesh -- Limitations of Objectification and the Doing of Flesh -- Testimony of the Body between the Lines of Medical Description -- Toward an Ethics of Exposure -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 14 Anaesthetics of Existence -- Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence -- (Feminist) Anaesthetics -- A Feminist Phenomenology of the Anaesthetics of Existence? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 15 Wandering in the Unhomelike: Chronic Depression, Inequality, and the Recovery Imperative -- Phenomenology, Depression, and the Self -- Meaning-Making, Bodily Metaphors, and the Lived Body -- Public Processes and Bodily Resonance -- The Trouble with Normal -- Questing Together, Accompanied by Bear -- Acknowledgments -- References.

List of Contributors -- Index.

Situated at the intersection of phenomenology of medicine and feminst 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 phenomonology 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. -- from back cover.

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