Resisting the ‘Patient’ Body: A Phenomenological Account
According to the biomedical model of medicine, the subject of the illness event is the pathology rather than the person diagnosed with the disease. In this view, a body-self becomes a ‘patient’ body-object that can be enrolled in a therapeutic protocol, investigated, assessed, and transformed. How c...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Embodied Research |
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| Online Access: | https://jer.openlibhums.org/articles/11 |