Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine

Kristin Zeiler is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden, and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala University, Sweden. Folkmarson Käll is Docent of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Division of Health and Society at Linköping University, Sweden. She is the editor of Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives.

• 1. Why Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine?Lisa Folkmarson Käll and Kristin Zeiler2. The Illness Experience: A Feminist Phenomenological PerspectiveLinda Fisher3. Visceral Phenomenology: Organ Transplantation, Identity, and BioethicsMargrit Shildrick4. Communal Pushing: Childbirth and IntersubjectivitySarah LaChance Adams and Paul Burcher5. Phenomenology, Cosmetic Surgery, and ComplicityErik Malimqvist6. Uncosmetic Surgeries in an Age of NormativityGail Weiss7. "BIID"? Queer (Dis)Orientations and the Phenomenology of "Home"Nikki Sullivan8. Sexed Embodiment in Atypical Pubertal Development: Intersubjectivity, Excorporation, and the Importance of Making Space for DifferenceKristin Zeiler and Lisa Guntram9. Reassigning Ambiguity: Intersex, Biomedicine, and the Question of HarmEllen K. Feder10. Feminism, Phenomenology, and HormonesLanei M. Rodemeyer11. The Body Uncanny: Alienation, Illness, and Anorexia NervosaFredrik Svenaeus12. Toward a Phenomenology of DisfigurementJenny Slatman and Gili Yaron13. "She’s Research!" Exposure, Epistemophilia, and Ethical Perception through Mike Nichol’s WitLisa Folkmarson Käll14. Anaesthetics of ExistenceCressida J. Heyes15. Wandering in the Unhomelike: Chronic Depression, Inequality, and the Recovery ImperativeAbby WilkersonList of ContributorsIndex

"…this volume is enjoyable to read and provides a positive, thought-provoking and original contribution for health-care professionals and philosophers interested in interrogating and articulating 'topical blindspots' of embodied medical phenomenology. It brings to the forefront many silent suppositions of medical phenomenology that have received little attention, and elucidates the practical relevance of phenomenology in a broader medical context than has hitherto been described." — Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences"…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." — Hypatia"…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"Though this volume is best suited to those interested in phenomenology, a few articles, particularly Käll's article on Wit, a film used in many bioethics courses, have a more general appeal and would be well worth reading by bioethicists." — CHOICE