Kevin Aho

From illness to stillness: on becoming (a) patient.

Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy October 16, 2026 Drew Leder, Kevin Aho

Illness is often understood as a disruption of ordinary temporality, fracturing narrative continuity, constricting horizons of possibility, and immersing sufferers in the slow, uncertain rhythms of waiting. Drawing on phenomenology, existential philosophy, pathography, and East Asian wisdom traditions, this article examines the relationship between growing ill and growing still, being a patient...