Feminist phenomenology and medicine
By: edited by Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Folkmarson Käll
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781438450070
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Women; Health and hygiene; Social aspects; Medicine; Philosophy; Feminist theory; Feminism; Health aspects; Medical care; Sex differences; Phenomenological psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why feminist phenomenology and medicine? / Lisa Folkmarson Käll and Kristin Zeiler; title: The illness experience : a feminist phenomenological perspective / Linda Fisher; title: Visceral phenomenology : organ transplantation, identity, and bioethics / Margrit Shildrick; title: Communal pushing : childbirth and intersubjectivity / Sarah LaChance Adams and Paul Burcher; title: Phenomenology, cosmetic surgery, and complicity / Erik Malmqvist; title: Uncosmetic surgeries in an age of normativity / Gail Weiss; title: "BIID"? Queer (dis)orientations and the phenomenology of "home" / Nikki Sullivan; title: Sexed embodiment in atypical pubertal development : intersubjectivity, excorporation, and the importance of making space for difference / Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Guntram; title: Reassigning ambiguity : intersex, biomedicine, and the question of harm / Ellen K. Feder; title: Feminism, phenomenology, and hormones / Lanei M. Rodemeyer; title: The body uncanny : alienation, illness, and anorexia nervosa / Fredrik Svenaeus; title: Toward a phenomenology of disfigurement / Jenny Slatman and Gili Yaron; title: "She's research!" Exposure, epistemophilia, and ethical perception through Mike Nichols' Wit / Lisa Folkmarson Kèall; title: Anaesthetics of existence / Cressida J. Heyes; title: Wandering in the unhomelike : chronic depression, inequality, and the recovery imperative / Abby Wilkerson.