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The Phenomenology of Objectification in and Through Medical Practice and Technology Development
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8973-8591
2023 (English)In: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, ISSN 0360-5310, E-ISSN 1744-5019, Vol. 48, no 2, p. 141-150Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Objectification is a real problem in medicine that can lead to bad medical practice or, in the worst case, dehumanization of the patient. Nevertheless, objectification also plays a major and necessary role in medicine: the patient's body should be viewed as a biological organism in order to find diseases and be able to cure them. Listening to the patient's illness story should not be replaced, but, indeed, developed by the physical examination of his body searching for the causes of his complaints. Whereas phenomenologists have so far mainly been identifying the back sides of objectification in medicine, in this paper the aim is to analyze differences between detrimental objectifications and objectifications that do not deprive the patient of his subjectivity but, rather, at least in some cases, may lead the patient to feel more at home with his body.

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Oxford University Press, 2023. Vol. 48, no 2, p. 141-150
Keywords [en]
genetic diagnosis, lived body, medical hermeneutics, objectification, phenomenology of medicine, quantified self
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Philosophy
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Critical and Cultural Theory
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51384DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhad007ISI: 000972883200004PubMedID: 37078731Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85153413546OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-51384DiVA, id: diva2:1753053
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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: 2023-04-25 Created: 2023-04-25 Last updated: 2023-07-10Bibliographically approved

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