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Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Pages: 109-126
Series: Philosophy and medicine
ISBN (Hardback): 9781402002007
Full citation:
, "Disease", in: Handbook of phenomenology and medicine, Berlin, Springer, 2001
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Disease
the phenomenological and conceptual center of practical-clinical medicine
pp. 109-126
in: Toombs (ed), Handbook of phenomenology and medicine, Berlin, Springer, 2001Abstract
In an ordinary English dictionary, chosen at random, you may read: "Someone who is ill is suffering from a disease or health problem which makes them unable to work or to live normally" (Collins, 1987, p. 721). Such a down-to-earth explication of illness says little or nothing about how it feels to fall, and to be, ill. And it does not tell you anything about that forbidding existential fact which infects any serious illness: being ill, seriously ill, is being lost and trapped in your self, your own weak self, which finds itself bereft of a world to care for and inhabit, and so unable to care for anything or anyone except itself, i.e., your self, which confines you to itself-your petty self.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Pages: 109-126
Series: Philosophy and medicine
ISBN (Hardback): 9781402002007
Full citation:
, "Disease", in: Handbook of phenomenology and medicine, Berlin, Springer, 2001