Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine
Kristin Zeiler, Lisa Folkmarson Kall
State Univ of New York Pr
<em>Phenomenological  insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and  deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.</em><br><br> 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.<br><br> “…this  book is a significant and original contribution to both feminist theory and  phenomenology. The volume bridges a range of fields of inquiry, filling a gap  in the feminist scholarship on medicine while, at the same time, providing  theoretical insights that will inform conceptual and practical concerns within  biomedicine.” — <em>Hypatia</em><br><br> “…the breadth and uniqueness of topics should interest  anyone who works within the fields of philosophy of medicine and medical ethics  … the collection is breaking new ground in a positive way … bringing a feminist  phenomenological lens to the philosophy of medicine makes salient the many ways  in which a variety of different kinds of oppressions are manifest within our  medical systems and practices. The hope is that practitioners, theorists, and  activists in the field read this book, and are moved to not only think in new  directions but to act upon their thoughts.” — Bioethics.net<br><br> “Though this volume  is best suited to those interested in phenomenology, a few articles,  particularly Käll’s article on <em>Wit</em>, a film used  in many bioethics courses, have a more general appeal and would be well worth  reading by bioethicists.” — <em>CHOICE</em>