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Svenaeus, F. (2024). Empathy, Imagination, and Interpersonal Understanding in Medical Practice (1ed.). In: Thomas Schramme and Mary Walker (Ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine: (pp. 1-14). Dordrecht: Springer
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Empathy, Imagination, and Interpersonal Understanding in Medical Practice
2024 (English)In: Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine / [ed] Thomas Schramme and Mary Walker, Dordrecht: Springer, 2024, 1, p. 1-14Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Professional empathy in health care is a feeling with, about, and for the patient that opens up a world to be explored by way of imagination and dialogue. The concern is professional in nature because it deals with the patient precisely as a person the health care professional has the duty to aid in respect of her education and position. The biomedical paradigm needs to be balanced and combined in the clinical encounter with an empathic perspective, focusing upon the experiences and everyday life of the patient, since the doctor and other health care professionals meet not only with a potentially diseased biological organism, but also with a person who is suffering and in need of professional help.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Dordrecht: Springer, 2024 Edition: 1
Keywords
empathy, clinical practice, professional care, imagination, hermeneutics, phenomenology, medical meeting, sympathy, compassion, emotional contagion, mirror neurons.
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55873 (URN)10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_107-1 (DOI)9789401787062 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-12-12 Created: 2024-12-12 Last updated: 2024-12-13Bibliographically approved
Svenaeus, F. (2024). Flourishing while withering: an explication and critique of Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenology of aging. Continental philosophy review, 57(4), 547-564
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Flourishing while withering: an explication and critique of Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenology of aging
2024 (English)In: Continental philosophy review, ISSN 1387-2842, E-ISSN 1573-0611, Vol. 57, no 4, p. 547-564Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper explores the process of aging from a phenomenological perspective. Supplementing the model of becoming old found in Simone de Beauvoir’s work with a phenomenology of human suffering and flourishing, it asks whether it is possible to lead a good life in the process of becoming old. Is it possible to flourish while experiencing bodily waning? Is it possible to flourish while experiencing the shrinking of one’s everyday world and the passing away of close others? Aging, at least in its protracted phases, appears to become full of suffering rather than flourishing. What are the prospects of finding meaningful life projects despite old age? By making use of insight found in Heidegger and other phenomenologists the paper tries to develop a slightly different view on aging than the one found in Beauvoir, stressing the importance of embodied experiences and life choices, which not only depend upon societal oppression and being objectified by others, but also upon processes of nature and the possibilities of an intergenerational intersubjectivity. Resources for this project is found in the philosophy of affectivity developed by Heidegger and other phenomenologists of facticity, such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Charles Taylor, Helmuth Plessner and Hannah Arendt.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2024
Keywords
Aging, Beauvoir, Embodiment, Feelings, Flourishing, Suffering
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-52863 (URN)10.1007/s11007-023-09621-3 (DOI)001117992200001 ()2-s2.0-85178410466 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-12-13 Created: 2023-12-13 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Svenaeus, F. (2024). Healing the Body or the Whole World?: A Reading of Drew Leder’s Recent Moves in the Phenomenology of Medicine. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 15(2), 104-110
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Healing the Body or the Whole World?: A Reading of Drew Leder’s Recent Moves in the Phenomenology of Medicine
2024 (English)In: Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, ISSN 2039-4667, Vol. 15, no 2, p. 104-110Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article I take a look at Drew Leder’s recent book The Healing Body: Creative Responses to Illness, Aging, and Affliction in view of his earlier scholarship and try to understand in what ways the author’s explorations of bodily phenomenology have developed and changed. I argue that Leder is attempting to cross breed phenomenology with critical theory (intersectionality studies) in a way that will appeal to many readers but is ultimately flawed. His attempts to marry phenomenology with eastern religious movements are also scrutinized and found more original and less problematic, although they are hard to evaluate from a secular point of view. Despite this critique, the way the book identifies various healing strategies by highlighting a number of bodily attitudes is found rewarding and helpful for persons suffering from chronic pain.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Bari: Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 2024
Keywords
phenomenology of the body; suffering, chronic pain; critical theory; objectification; eastern philosophy
National Category
Philosophy Ethics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55878 (URN)10.4453/rifp.2024.0012 (DOI)001419099000001 ()2-s2.0-85216019341 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-12-12 Created: 2024-12-12 Last updated: 2025-02-24Bibliographically approved
Svenaeus, F. (2024). I patientmötet blottläggs den psykiska ohälsans historia [Review]. Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap (23 augusti)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>I patientmötet blottläggs den psykiska ohälsans historia
2024 (Swedish)In: Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap, ISSN 2001-2292, no 23 augustiArticle, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Tidskriften respons, 2024
National Category
Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55877 (URN)
Note

Recension av: Hela människor : patientmötet i behandling av psykisk ohälsa från sent 1700-tal till 1924 av Cecilia Riving, Göteborg, Makadam förlag, 2024

Available from: 2024-12-12 Created: 2024-12-12 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Svenaeus, F. (2024). Psykiatrins etik (3 rev.ed.). In: Jörgen Herlofson; Lisa Ekselius; Marie Åsberg (Ed.), Psykiatri: (pp. 63-68). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Psykiatrins etik
2024 (Swedish)In: Psykiatri / [ed] Jörgen Herlofson; Lisa Ekselius; Marie Åsberg, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2024, 3 rev., p. 63-68Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2024 Edition: 3 rev.
National Category
Medical Ethics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55881 (URN)9789144166476 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-12-12 Created: 2024-12-12 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Svenaeus, F. (2024). Sjukdomsbegreppet i psykiatrin (3 rev.ed.). In: Jörgen Herlofson; Lisa Ekselius; Marie Åsberg (Ed.), Psykiatri: (pp. 35-39). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sjukdomsbegreppet i psykiatrin
2024 (Swedish)In: Psykiatri / [ed] Jörgen Herlofson; Lisa Ekselius; Marie Åsberg, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2024, 3 rev., p. 35-39Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2024 Edition: 3 rev.
National Category
Psychiatry
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55880 (URN)9789144166476 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-12-12 Created: 2024-12-12 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Svenaeus, F. (2024). Slumpen avgör ofta vem som lyckas med ett suicidförsök [Review]. Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap (11 februari)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Slumpen avgör ofta vem som lyckas med ett suicidförsök
2024 (Swedish)In: Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap, ISSN 2001-2292, no 11 februariArticle, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Tidskriften Respons, 2024
National Category
Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55876 (URN)
Note

Recension av: Ett liv värt att leva: Varför självmord blev människans följeslagare av Christian Rück, Stockholm, Albert Bonniers förlag, 2024,

Available from: 2024-12-12 Created: 2024-12-12 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Svenaeus, F. (2024). Så blev utmattning en svensk folksjukdom: Under strecket. Svenska Dagbladet (15 juni)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Så blev utmattning en svensk folksjukdom: Under strecket
2024 (Swedish)In: Svenska Dagbladet, ISSN 1101-2412, no 15 juniArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Hb Svenska dagbladets AB & Co, 2024
National Category
Medical and Health Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55879 (URN)
Available from: 2024-12-12 Created: 2024-12-12 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Svenaeus, F. (2024). The Phenomenology of Frailty: Existentialism and Old-Age Vulnerability. In: Kevin Aho; Megan Altman; Hans Pedersen (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism: (pp. 405-415). Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Phenomenology of Frailty: Existentialism and Old-Age Vulnerability
2024 (English)In: The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism / [ed] Kevin Aho; Megan Altman; Hans Pedersen, Routledge, 2024, p. 405-415Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

To become old means to become frail. The human body ages in ways that depend on genes, environmental-, and chance-factors, but if we do not end our lives as a result of a deadly accident or sudden onset of a lethal disease, we will all face a final phase of frailty before we die. Frailty may be caused by way of disease processes, but it can also consist in an increased sense of fragility, weakness, fatigue, and dizziness without a detected disease, which makes a person more likely to fall ill and make it harder to recover from illness. Neither phenomenologists nor existentialists have spent much time analysing frailty, except, perhaps, in the latter case, as a feature of human life to be avoided and resisted by way of a strong will and brave choices. The primary example would be Jean-Paul Sartre, but also Simone de Beauvoir is guilty of a certain contempt for bodily fragility. Arguably, the theories of some phenomenologists, such as Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur, do a good job of rehabilitating human vulnerability in general, but not in the sense of a specific frailty related to illness and ageing. Despite this lack of a phenomenology of frailty in phenomenological-existentialist philosophy there are resources in this tradition to be exploited in developing such a subject. A phenomenology of frailty could be of importance not only for philosophers and empirical researchers, but also for old people and their care takers in attempts to make frail lives more bearable. The chapter develops a phenomenology of frailty by making use of concepts and arguments developed by existentialist thinkers, but also by scrutinizing them further and turning them against their fathers and mothers.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53910 (URN)10.4324/9781003247791-44 (DOI)2-s2.0-85190180811 (Scopus ID)978-1-032-16258-4 (ISBN)978-1-032-16263-8 (ISBN)978-1-003-24779-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-04-24 Created: 2024-04-24 Last updated: 2024-04-24Bibliographically approved
Svenaeus, F. (2024). Tillsammans [Review]. Axess (8)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Tillsammans
2024 (Swedish)In: Axess, ISSN 1651-0941, no 8Article, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Axess publishing, 2024
National Category
Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55875 (URN)
Note

Recension av: Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World av Peter Godfrey-Smith, Glasgow, William Collins, 2024

Available from: 2024-12-12 Created: 2024-12-12 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
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The body as gift, resource and commodity: Organ transplantation in the Baltic region [A014-2007_OSS]; Södertörn University; Publications
Gunnarson, M. (2019). The Simultaneous Embedment and Disembedment of Biomedicine: Intercorporeality and Patient Interaction at Hemodialysis Units in Riga and Stockholm. In: Nils Hansson and Jonatan Wistrand (Ed.), Explorations in Baltic Medical History, 1850-2015: (pp. 229-248). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester PressGunnarson, M. (2016). Avhandlingspresentation: Please Be Patient: A Cultural Phenomenological Study of Haemodialysis and Kidney Transplantation Care. Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, 93(3), 332-332Svenaeus, F. (2015). Organ transplantation ethics from the perspective of embodied personhood. In: Arras, J., Fenton E., and Kukla, R. (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Bioethics: (pp. 570-580). London: RoutledgeSvenaeus, F. (2015). The lived body and personal identity: The ontology of exiled body parts. In: Erik Malmqvist and Kristin Zeiler (Ed.), Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing: Perspectives on Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies (pp. 19-34). Abingdon: RoutledgeSvenaeus, F. (2013). Kroppen som gåva, resurs eller vara: Transplantationsetiska dilemman. In: Palm, Anders och Stenström, Johan (Ed.), Kroppen i humanioraperspektiv: (pp. 53-67). Lund: Makadam FörlagSvenaeus, F. (2013). Livet, tänkandet och driften mot oordning. Svenska Dagbladet (18 november)Svenaeus, F. (2013). Vi ser inte människan för alla kroppsdelar. Svenska Dagbladet (12 mars)Gunnarson, M. (2012). Concealed by the "Gift of Life": The Complexities of Living with Dialysis and Kidney Transplantaiton in Stockholm and Riga. In: Martin Gunnarson, Fredrik Svenaeus (Ed.), The Body as Gift, Resource, and Commodity: Exchanging Organs,Tissues, and Cells in the 21st Century (pp. 103-136). Huddinge: Södertörns högskolaSvenaeus, F. (2012). Organ Transplantation and Personal Identity: How Does Loss and Change of Organs Affect the Self?. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 37(2), 139-158Gunnarson, M. & Svenaeus, F. (Eds.). (2012). The Body as Gift, Resource, and Commodity: Exchanging Organs, Tissues, and Cells in the 21st Century (1ed.). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
The Phenomenology of Suffering in Medicine: Explorations in the Baltic Sea Region [4/2014_OSS]; Södertörn University; Publications
Seniuk, P. (2020). Encountering Depression In-Depth: An existential-phenomenological approach to selfhood, depression, and psychiatric practice. (Doctoral dissertation). Huddinge: Södertörns högskolaSvenaeus, F. (2020). Pain (1ed.). In: Thomas Szanto; Hilde Landweer (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion: (pp. 543-552). Abingdon: RoutledgeSvenaeus, F. (2020). Saulius Geniusas: The Phenomenology of Pain [Review]. Phenomenological Reviews (2020-07-12)Svenaeus, F. (2020). To die well: the phenomenology of suffering and end of life ethics. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, 23, 335-342Svenaeus, F. (2019). A Defense of the Phenomenological Account of Health and Illness. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 44(4), 459-478Svenaeus, F. (2019). Dying Bodies and Dead Bodies: A Phenomenological Analysis of Dementia, Coma and Brain Death. In: Espen Dahl, Cassandra Falke, Thor Eirik Eriksen (Ed.), Phenomenology of the Broken Body: (pp. 215-231). Abingdon: RoutledgeAhlzén, R. (2019). Rapport av den empiriska delen av projektet The Phenomenology of Suffering in Medicine: Explorations in the Baltic Sea Region vid Södertörns högskola. Huddinge: Södertörns högskolaSvenaeus, F. (2018). Edith Stein’s Phenomenology of Empathy and Medical Ethics (1ed.). In: Elisa Magri & Dermot Moran (Ed.), Empathy, Sociality and Personhood: Essays on Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Investigations (pp. 161-175). Dordrecht: SpringerSvenaeus, F. (2018). Edith Stein’s phenomenology of sensual and emotional empathy. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 17(4), 741-760Svenaeus, F. (2018). Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology and the Perils of Medicalization (1ed.). In: Kevin Aho (Ed.), Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness (pp. 131-144). London: Rowman & Littlefield International
The Role of Existential Philosophy in Health Care: The Cases of Germany, Denmark, and Sweden [4/2017_OSS]; Södertörn University; Publications
Svenaeus, F. (2023). The Phenomenology of Objectification in and Through Medical Practice and Technology Development. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 48(2), 141-150Svenaeus, F. (2023). Världen vaknar: känslornas plats i människans liv. Möklinta: Gidlunds förlagGunnarson, M. (2022). Det lilla och stora screeningtestet. In: Anette Wickström; Sofia Morberg Jämterud; Kristin Zeiler (Ed.), Screeningens mångsidighet: Dess möjligheter och utmaningar. Lund: Nordic Academic PressGunnarson, M. (2022). Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, 25(4), 641-654Svenaeus, F. (2022). Dödshjälp – ett privilegium för de rika?. Svenska Dagbladet (2022-06-20), pp. 20Svenaeus, F. (2022). Health and Illness as Enacted Phenomena. Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 41, 373-382Zeiler, K., Karlsson, G. & Gunnarson, M. (2022). Opportunistic cognitive screening in Sweden: What the tests mean and do for patients and healthcare professionals. Dementia, 21(1), 236-249Svenaeus, F. (2022). The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health: Steps towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice. Second Revised Edition (2 rev. ed.ed.). Dordrecht: Springer NetherlandsSvenaeus, F. (2021). Empathy and togetherness online compared to IRL: A phenomenological account. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 52(1), 78-95Gunnarson, M., Kapeller, A. & Zeiler, K. (2021). Ethico-Political Aspects of Conceptualizing Screening: The Case of Dementia. Health Care Analysis, 29, 343-359
Swedish network for the medical humanities [2021-01887_Forte]; Uppsala University
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