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A Defense of the Phenomenological Account of Health and Illness
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8973-8591
2019 (English)In: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, ISSN 0360-5310, E-ISSN 1744-5019, Vol. 44, no 4, p. 459-478Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A large slice of contemporary phenomenology of medicine has been devoted to developing an account of health and illness that proceeds from the first-person perspective when attempting to understand the ill person in contrast and connection to the third-person perspective on his/her diseased body. A proof that this phenomenological account of health and illness, represented by philosophers, such as Drew Leder, Kay Toombs, Havi Carel, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kevin Aho, and Fredrik Svenaeus, is becoming increasingly influential in philosophy of medicine and medical ethics is the criticism of it that has been voiced in some recent studies. In this article, two such critical contributions, proceeding from radically different premises and backgrounds, are discussed: Jonathan Sholl's naturalistic critique and Talia Welsh's Nietzschean critique. The aim is to defend the phenomenological account and clear up misunderstandings about what it amounts to and what we should be able to expect from it.

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Oxford University Press, 2019. Vol. 44, no 4, p. 459-478
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Nietzsche, health, illness, naturalism, phenomenology
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Philosophy Medical Ethics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38683DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhz013ISI: 000493013600005PubMedID: 31356662Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85070753642OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-38683DiVA, id: diva2:1340722
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The Phenomenology of Suffering in Medicine: Explorations in the Baltic Sea Region, The Foundation for Baltic and East European StudiesThe 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, 4/2014The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 4/2017Available from: 2019-08-06 Created: 2019-08-06 Last updated: 2023-07-10Bibliographically approved

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