The body

pp. 51-88

in: Toombs, The meaning of illness, Berlin, Springer, 1992

Abstract

In considering the manner in which the body is apprehended by the patient in illness, it is important first to explore the manner in which the body is apprehended in normal circumstances. In particular, one should distinguish the lived body (the body experienced at the pre-reflective level in a non-objective way) and the objective or physiological body (the body apprehended at the reflective level as a material objective entity among other entities within the world).