The meaning of illness : a phenomenological account of the different perspectives of physician and patient
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.
Philosophy and medicine, v. 42
xvi, 161 pages ; 23 cm.
9780792324430, 9780792315704, 0792324439, 0792315707
394903705
One: The Separate Worlds of Physician and Patient.- 1. Own World.- 2. Common World.- 3. Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient.- 4. Implications for Medical Practice.- Two: Illness.- 1. Levels of Constitution of Meaning.- 2. The Patient’s Apprehension of Illness.- 3. The Physician’s Apprehension of the Patient’s Illness.- 4. Implications for Medical Practice.- Three: The Body.- 1. The Lived Body.- 2. Body as Object.- 3. Lived Body in Illness.- 4. Body as Object in Illness.- 5. The Body-as-Scientific-Object.- 6. Implications for Medical Practice.- Four: The Healing Relationship.- 1. Illness-as-Lived.- 2. Empathic Understanding.- 3. Clinical Narrative.- 4. The Healing Relationship.- Notes.