A key topic within the field of the phenomenology of medicine has been the relationship between body and self in illness, including discussions about the otherness and mineness of the body. The aim of this article is to distinguish between different meanings of bodily otherness and mineness in illness with reference to the interpretation of the body as "saturated phenomenon," inspired by the...
In this paper I will try to systematically lay out and describe the multiple dimensions of the embodied experience of illness, which until recently has been the main focus within the field of the phenomenology of medicine.In order to do this, I will turn to analysis of the nature of embodiment in Husserl's phenomenology.I will argue that based on Hus serl's phenomenology of the body, one can...