Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine, livre ebook

Situated at the intersection of phenomenology of medicine and feminist phenomenology, this volume provides insights into medical practices such as surgical operations, organ transplants, dentistry, midwifery, and psychiatry. The contributors make clear the relevance of feminist phenomenology to the fields of medicine and health by highlighting difference, vulnerability, and volatility as central dimensions of human experience rather than deviations. It also further vitalizes the field of phenomenology by bringing it into conversation with a range of different materials—including case studies, fiction, and other forms of narrative—and shedding new light on issues like bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification. The volume's focus on concrete experience develops and sharpens the methodological tools and conceptual framework of phenomenology and makes it an excellent resource for scholars, students, and medical practitioners alike.
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