Body Matters A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness

by Aho, James; Aho, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780739126981
• ISBN10: 0739126989
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-19
• Publisher: LEXINGTON BOOKS

Summary

Following the core principle of phenomenology as a return "to the things themselves," Body Matters examines bodily afflictions from three different standpoints: from society in general, which interprets them as "sicknesses"; from the medical professions, which interpret them as "diseases"; and from the patients themselves, who interpret them as "illnesses." By drawing on a crucial distinction in German phenomenology between two senses of the body-the quantifiable, material body (Korper) and the lived-body (Leib)-the authors explore the ways in which sickness, disease, and illness are socially and historically experienced and constructed.

Author Biography

James Aho is professor of sociology at Idaho State University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foundations	p. 1
The Lived-Body	p. 15
The Accelerated Body and Its Pathologies	p. 33
The Sicknesses of Society	p. 55
The Diseases of Medicine	p. 77
The Agonies of Illness	p. 103
Medicine and Phenomenology	p. 129
Recovering Therapy	p. 145
Conclusion	p. 157
The Phenomenon of Phenomenology	p. 165
References	p. 173
Index	p. 189
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