Embodiment and Objectification in Illness and Health Care: Taking Phenomenology from Theory to Practice

Fernandez, Anthony Vincent

doi:10.1111/jocn.15431

Cited by 28 publications

(20 citation statements)

References 21 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The extent to which these understanding of the person are at the foundation of Western healthcare and medicine is obvious in the literature on medical phenomenology (Carel, 2011;Rodriguez & Smith, 2018;Toombs, 2001) and medical anthropology (Good, 2010;Manderson et al, 2012). Healthcare professionals including nurses are taught phenomenological methods, such as the epoché, reduction or bracketing, selfhood, embodiment, and affectivity as effective ways of avoiding biases so that one may attend to the phenomena in an open and unprejudiced way (Fernandez, 2020). The Cartesian derived perspective of the person and the phenomenological understanding of the person are key features of medical anthropology and phenomenology courses (Jaye, 2004).…”

Section: The Continental Philosophy Of Personhood and Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference

Imafidon

2022

Nursing Philosophy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this study, I explore the challenges that ideological hegemonies of personhood imbibed by nurses and other healthcare workers could pose for the nursing profession, particularly in terms of inhibiting the acknowledgment of difference. Dominant or hegemonic conceptions of personhood in particular spaces often consist of self-contained ideas and essentialist ontologies and normativity of what it means to be a person, lack of which results in the denial of personhood and the othering as non-person or sub-person. The other as the residue of such selfcontained notions of personhood is most often denied the quality of care that the one who fits within such conceptions enjoy. For nurses and other healthcare workers to overcome such exclusionary tendencies in healthcare, they must overcome hegemonies and ideological dominance and be more open to alternative viewpoints and theories of personhood. I develop these lines of thought by focusing on the rich ideological traditions of Continental and African philosophies showing how exclusion takes place within these traditions based on conceptions of personhood and how such exclusion on the basis of difference impacts negatively on healthcare. I conclude by highlighting the need to go beyond hegemonic philosophies of personhood by decolonizing and demasculinizing healthcare, thereby allowing difference to flourish in an ecology of medical knowledge.

show abstract

Section: The Continental Philosophy Of Personhood and Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference

Imafidon

2022

Nursing Philosophy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A superficial level of her research points to differences in societal expectations on the capacity of males (and females, in particular) to deal with the pain of childbirth and reproduction. By drawing on concepts such as Freund's (1990) [60] 'expressive body' and more general ideas about how social categories modify embodied experiences, Fernandez, A. V. (2020) [61] 's study opens new avenues of inquiry into the relationship between gendered expectations, stereotypes, and actual lived experiences for women and men alike. Nettleton, S. (2021) [62] 's A significant focus of her research is on how various types of pain are seen and 'lived out' by people based on their " experience of being in a body and being a gendered body in a hierarchically organized gender-differentiated environment.…”

Section: Macro-context: Social and Demographic Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Observations of health and illness from the perspective of the lay experiences

Mamatha¹

2022

ijhs

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article reviews and evaluates the literature on health and illness produced over the last 20 years that has added to our knowledge of lay experiences of health & illness. From an “outsider” viewpoint, as expressed in the Parsonian idea of the “sick role,” comes a crucial and welcome transition to one that examines the experiences of individuals in their everyday lives. Early work by “Bury (1982), Charmaz (1983), and Williams (1984)” has been highlighted for their role in laying the groundwork for a more nuanced understanding of lay experiences that takes into account both micro-and macro-contextual effects. As well as pointing out ‘uncharted territory’ and “the ‘missing voices’ in the medical sociology literature, the paper looks to the future and the past. According to some recently published work in the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar journals that have opened the way to what may be 21st-century health and illness. The paper concludes with a plea for medical sociologists to be more open to new and unconventional theoretical & methodological perspectives.”

show abstract

“…Today, phenomenology has found fruitful application in nearly all scientific disciplines, including healthcare and psychiatry (Zahavi and Parnas 2002 ; Ratcliffe 2008 ; Perier et al 2013 ; Fernandez 2020 ). It can be of use here in particular by exploring how health and illnesses are experienced and perceived by the patient, making it a valuable contribution to any medical doctrine endorsing a patient-central perspective.…”

Section: Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Phenomenological and existential contributions to the study of erectile dysfunction

Suijker

Mazijk

Keijzer

et al. 2021

Med Health Care and Philos

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The current medical approach to erectile dysfunction (ED) consists of physiological, psychological and social components. This paper proposes an additional framework for thinking about ED based on phenomenology, by focusing on the theory of sexual projection. This framework will be complementary to the current medical approach to ED. Our phenomenological analysis of ED provides philosophical depth and illuminates overlooked aspects in the study of ED. Mainly by appealing to Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, we suggest considering an additional etiology of ED in terms of a weakening of a function of sexual projection. We argue that sexual projection can be problematized through cognitive interferences, changes in the ‘intentional arc’, and modifications in the subject’s ‘body schema’. Our approach further highlights the importance of considering the ‘existential situation’ of patients with ED. We close by reflecting briefly on some of the implications of this phenomenological framework for diagnosis and treatment of ED.

show abstract

Embodiment and Objectification in Illness and Health Care: Taking Phenomenology from Theory to Practice

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cited by 28 publications

References 21 publications

Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference

Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference

Observations of health and illness from the perspective of the lay experiences

Phenomenological and existential contributions to the study of erectile dysfunction

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About