caa a22 4500 445798084 CHVBK 20180317145132.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11017-010-9161-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11017-010-9161-x Carel Havi Department of History, Philosophy and Politics, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK aut Phenomenology and its application in medicine [Elektronische Daten] [Havi Carel] Phenomenology is a useful methodology for describing and ordering experience. As such, phenomenology can be specifically applied to the first person experience of illness in order to illuminate this experience and enable health care providers to enhance their understanding of it. However, this approach has been underutilized in the philosophy of medicine as well as in medical training and practice. This paper demonstrates the usefulness of phenomenology to clinical medicine. In order to describe the experience of illness, we need a phenomenological approach that gives the body a central role and acknowledges the primacy of perception. I present such a phenomenological method and show how it could usefully illuminate the experience of illness through a set of concepts taken from Merleau-Ponty. His distinction between the biological body and the body as lived, analysis of the habitual body, and the notions of motor intentionality and intentional arc are used to capture the experience of illness. I then discuss the applications this approach could have in medicine. These include narrowing the gap between objective assessments of well-being in illness and subjective experiences which are varied and diverse; developing a more attuned dialogue between physicians and patients based on a thick understanding of illness; developing research methods that are informed by phenomenology and thus go beyond existing qualitative methods; and providing medical staff with a concrete understanding of the impact of illness on the life-world of patients. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Embodiment nationallicence Disease nationallicence Illness nationallicence Phenomenology nationallicence Experience of illness nationallicence Medical training nationallicence Merleau-Ponty nationallicence Philosophy of medicine nationallicence Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/1(2011-02-01), 33-46 1386-7415 32:1<33 2011 32 11017 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-010-9161-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-010-9161-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Carel Havi Department of History, Philosophy and Politics, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/1(2011-02-01), 33-46 1386-7415 32:1<33 2011 32 11017 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer