Bas de Boer

Healthy Embodiment

Philosophical Reflections on the Experience of Health

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the experience of health and investigates how this experience is shaped by recent developments in medicine and public health. It shows how phenomenological and Foucauldian approaches to health can be systematically integrated into a general account of healthy embodiment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032991146
• ISBN-10: 1032991143
• Artikelnr.: 72600363

Autorenporträt

Bas de Boer (PhD) is an assistant professor in the philosophy of technology at the University of Twente. He is the author of How Scientific Instruments Speak (2021) and editor of the recent volume Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology (2024).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Enigma of Health? 1. Our Two Bodies - Phenomenology
Health
and Biomedicine 2. Our Three Bodies - Medicalisation
Population
Public Health 3. Health
Medicine
and Power 4. Technological Incorporation and the Experience of Health 5. Personalized Medicine and Healthy Embodiment Epilogue