The Meaning of Illness: A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and PatientSpringer Science & Business Media, 2013 M11 11 - 165 pages A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient. In discussing my illness with physicians, it has often seemed to me that we have been somehow talking at cross purposes, discussing different things, never quite reaching one another. This inability to communicate does not, for the most part, result from inatten tiveness or insensitivity but from a fundamental disagreement about the nature of illness. Rather than representing a shared reality between us, illness represents two quite distinct realities - the meaning of one being significantly and distinctively different from the meaning of the other. In this work I shall suggest that psychological phenomenology provides the means to examine the nature of this fundamental disagreement between physician and patient in a rigorous fashion.! In particular, psychological phenomenology discloses the manner in which the of his or her experience. individual constitutes the meaning In providing a phenomenological description,2 the phenomenologist is committed to the effort to begin with what is given in immediate ex perience, to tum to the essential features of what presents itself as it presents itself to consciousness, and thereby to clarify the constitutive activity of consciousness and the sense-structure of experiencing. |
Contents
THE SEPARATE WORLDS OF PHYSICIAN | 1 |
ILLNESS | 31 |
THE BODY | 51 |
THE HEALING RELATIONSHIP | 89 |
NOTES | 121 |
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Alfred Schutz alienation argues attention aware being-for-the-Other being-in-the-world biomedical model bodily disruption body image Cassell chronic illness clinical narrative communication conception concrete consciousness Consequently constituted cure diagnosis disability disease disorder distinction embodiment empathic understanding entity everyday example existential experience of illness explicit explicitly focus focuses function fundamental Furthermore gestural display grasp healing Husserl Ian McWhinney illness-as-lived immediate experience important individual insight interpretation intersubjective ISBN Kleinman knowledge lifeworld lived body disruption lived spatiality loss manner meaning of illness medical gaze medicine Merleau-Ponty multiple sclerosis Natanson necessarily noted object objectification one's body pain pathoanatomical patient's illness perceived person perspectives phantom limb phenomenological analysis physical physician and patient pre-reflective level reality recognize reflective level regard relation relationship represents S.F. Spicker Sacks Sartre Schutz scientific sense shared world sick simply structure suffered illness symptoms system of relevances temporal thematic things Tristram Engelhardt typifications uncanny unique biographical situation Zaner