Zeiler / Käll Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5008-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zeiler, Kristin

Käll, Lisa Folkmarson

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine?
Lisa Folkmarson Käll and Kristin Zeiler

2. The Illness Experience: A Feminist Phenomenological Perspective
Linda Fisher

3. Visceral Phenomenology: Organ Transplantation, Identity, and Bioethics
Margrit Shildrick

4. Communal Pushing: Childbirth and Intersubjectivity
Sarah LaChance Adams and Paul Burcher

5. Phenomenology, Cosmetic Surgery, and Complicity
Erik Malimqvist

6. Uncosmetic Surgeries in an Age of Normativity
Gail Weiss

7. “BIID”? Queer (Dis)Orientations and the Phenomenology of “Home”
Nikki Sullivan

8. Sexed Embodiment in Atypical Pubertal Development: Intersubjectivity, Excorporation, and the Importance of Making Space for Difference
Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Guntram

9. Reassigning Ambiguity: Intersex, Biomedicine, and the Question of Harm
Ellen K. Feder

10. Feminism, Phenomenology, and Hormones
Lanei M. Rodemeyer

11. The Body Uncanny: Alienation, Illness, and Anorexia Nervosa
Fredrik Svenaeus

12. Toward a Phenomenology of Disfigurement
Jenny Slatman and Gili Yaron

13. “She’s Research!” Exposure, Epistemophilia, and Ethical Perception through Mike Nichol’s Wit
Lisa Folkmarson Käll

14. Anaesthetics of Existence
Cressida J. Heyes

15. Wandering in the Unhomelike: Chronic Depression, Inequality, and the Recovery Imperative
Abby Wilkerson

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kristin Zeiler is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden, and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala University, Sweden. Folkmarson Käll is Docent of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Division of Health and Society at Linköping University, Sweden. She is the editor of Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives.