Havi Carel uses phenomenology to explore how illness modifies the ill person's body, values, and world. Carel argues that illness has received little philosophical attention. Phenomenology of Illness develops a phenomenological framework for illness and a systematic understanding of illness as a philosophical tool.
Havi Carel uses phenomenology to explore how illness modifies the ill person's body, values, and world. Carel argues that illness has received little philosophical attention. Phenomenology of Illness develops a phenomenological framework for illness and a systematic understanding of illness as a philosophical tool.
Havi Carel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, where she also teaches medical students. Her research examines the experience of illness and of receiving healthcare. She was recently awarded a Senior Investigator Award by the Wellcome Trust, for a five year project entitled 'Life of Breath' (with Prof Jane Macnaughton, Durham University). She has previously published on the embodied experience of illness, wellbeing within illness and patient-clinician communication in the Lancet, BMJ, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, and in edited collections. Havi is the author of Illness (2008, 2013), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (2006). She is the co-editor of Health, Illness and Disease (2012) and of What Philosophy Is (2004).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Why use phenomenology to study illness? 2: Phenomenological features of the body 3: The body in illness 4: Bodily doubt 5: Phenomenology of breathlessness 6: Illness and wellbeing 7: Illness as Being-towards-death 8: Epistemic injustice in illness 9: The philosophical role of illness Bibliography
Introduction 1: Why use phenomenology to study illness? 2: Phenomenological features of the body 3: The body in illness 4: Bodily doubt 5: Phenomenology of breathlessness 6: Illness and wellbeing 7: Illness as Being-towards-death 8: Epistemic injustice in illness 9: The philosophical role of illness Bibliography
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