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Body Matters - A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness (Hardcover)
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Body Matters - A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness (Hardcover)
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Following the core principle of phenomenology as a return "to the
things themselves," Body Matters attends to the phenomena of bodily
afflictions and examines them from three different standpoints:
from society in general that interprets them as "sicknesses," from
the medical professions that interpret them as "diseases," and from
the patients themselves who interpret them as "illnesses." By
drawing on a crucial distinction in German phenomenology between
two senses of the body the quantifiable, material body (Korper) and
the lived-body(Leib) the authors explore the ways in which
sickness, disease, and illness are socially and historically
experienced and constructed. To make their case, they draw on
examples from a multiplicity of disciplines and cultures as well as
a number of cases from Euro-American history. The intent is to
unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions that readers may have about
body troubles. These are assumptions widely held as well by medical
and allied health professionals, in addition to many sociologists
and philosophers of health and illness. To this end, Body Matters
does not simply deconstruct prejudices of mainstream biomedicine;
it also constructively envisions more humane and artful forms of
therapy."
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