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Health and Illness as Enacted Phenomena
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8973-8591
2022 (English)In: Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, ISSN 0167-7411, E-ISSN 1572-8749, Vol. 41, p. 373-382Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper I explore health and illness through the lens of enactivism, which is understood and developed as a bodily-based worldly-engaged phenomenology. Various health theories - biomedical, ability-based, biopsychosocial - are introduced and scrutinized from the point of view of enactivism and phenomenology. Health is ultimately argued to consist in a central world-disclosing aspect of what is called existential feelings, experienced by way of transparency and ease in carrying out important life projects. Health, in such a phenomenologically enacted understanding, is an important and in many cases necessary part of leading a good life. Illness, on the other hand, by such a phenomenological view, consist in finding oneself at mercy of unhomelike existential feelings, such as bodily pains, nausea, extreme unmotivated tiredness, depression, chronic anxiety and delusion, which make it harder and, in some cases, impossible to flourish. In illness suffering the lived body hurts, resists, or, in other ways, alienates the activities of the ill person.

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Springer, 2022. Vol. 41, p. 373-382
Keywords [en]
Biopsychosocial, Enactivism, Existential feelings, Health theory, Phenomenology of illness, Philosophical anthropology
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Health Sciences Philosophy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45495DOI: 10.1007/s11245-021-09747-0ISI: 000652109400001PubMedID: 34024965Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85106034283OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-45495DiVA, id: diva2:1559498
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The Role of Existential Philosophy in Health Care: The Cases of Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
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The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 4/2017Available from: 2021-06-02 Created: 2021-06-02 Last updated: 2024-01-08Bibliographically approved

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