Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Phenomenology of the Body
Course Code
HZK_030
Branch of Science
Philosophy of Mind and Cognition (Epistemology, Gnozeology); Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Dentistry; Medicine; Nursing Science; Rehabilitation
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Māra Grīnfelde
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
To introduce students to the phenomenological approach within health care by demonstrating the crucial role of the patient's embodied experience in the healing process.
Preliminary Knowledge
No previous knowledge required.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students will be able to define and explain the key concepts of the phenomenological approach (experience, intentionality, body and lived body, embodiment, body schema and body image), as well as to characterize and evaluate the importance of the embodied experience in health care. Students will be able to characterize the field of the phenomenology of medicine and its importance in the current discussions about the improvement of the health care.
Skills
1.With the help of the phenomenological concepts, students will be able to analyze concrete cases within health care.
Competences
1.Using the acquired knowledge of the phenomenological approach, students will be able to formulate its usefulness in the context of health care. Students will also be able to analyze a variety of problems related to the health care practices using phenomenological approach.
Assessment
Individual work
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1. Students have to read the compulsory literature and the reading materials for the seminars. Before every seminar students have to read a dedicated reading material and must be prepared to answer questions about the main concepts, ideas and arguments of that reading material.
2. Students independently prepare for the examination about the topics from lectures and seminars.
3. Working in groups students prepare presentation based on the analysis of a concrete case, in which they demonstrate the importance of the phenomenological approach in health care.
4. At the end of the course students take course evaluation survey on the e-studies.
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Examination
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1. Participation in seminars individually or in a group (30% from the final grade). Students actively participate in all seminar, understand and can formulate the ideas expressed in the seminar reading material, productively engage in discussions about the issues of the seminar topic, argue their position, use appropriate terminology in discussions, as well as refer to the seminar reading material in discussions. Preparation of the presentation (30%). Students prepare the presentation in groups, in which they analyze the role of the patient embodied experience in health care.
2. Examination (40% from the final grade). Students take a written examination, in which they have to show the acquired knowledge about the topics covered in the course.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Auditorium
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2
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Introduction to the phenomenology of medicine
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Introduction to the phenomenology of medicine
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Structures of the Lived Body
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Experience of the Gendered Body
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Illness
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Illness: Case Studies
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Lived Body in Medical Environment
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Lived Body in Medical Environment
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Altered Bodily Experiences
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Experience of the Social Body
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Lived Body and Emotions: Shame
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Lived Body and Identity
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Phenomenology of Ageing and Dying
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Technologies and Health Care
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Lived body in medical environment
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Written test
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Carel, H. 2020. The locked-down body: Embodiment in the age of pandemic. The Philosopher, 108(3), 12–17.
2.
Carel, H. 2012. The Art of Medicine: “How Do You Feel?”: Oscillating Perspectives in the Clinic. Perspectives. 379, 2334-2335. (akceptējams izdevums)
3.
Dolezal, L. 2015. The Phenomenology of Shame in the Clinical Encounter. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 18, 567-576.
4.
Grīnfelde, M. 2023. Body objectified? Phenomenological perspective on patient objectification in teleconsultation. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 26, 335–349.
5.
Grīnfelde, M. 2018. The Four Dimensions of Embodiment and the Experience of Illness. AVANT. The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard. 9(2), 107–27.
6.
Heinamaa, S. 2014. Transformations of Old Age. In: Stoller, S., ed. Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, and Time. Berlin: De Gruyter. 167-189.
7.
Svenaeus, F. 2013. Anorexia Nervosa and the Body Uncanny: A Phenomenological Approach. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. 20(1), 81-91.
8.
Slatman, J. 2014. Multiple Dimensions of Embodiment in Medical Practices. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 17, 549-557.
Additional Reading
1.
Roth, W.-M. 2012. First-Person Methods. Toward an Empirical Phenomenology of Experience. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: Sense Publishers.
2.
Svenaeus, F. 2022. The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health: Steps towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice. 2nd edition. Dordrecth: Kluwer.
3.
Toombs, K. S., ed. 2001. Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine. Dordrecth: Springer.
4.
Young, I. M. 2005. Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality. In: Young, I. M. On Female Body Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 27-45.
5.
Zeile, R. K., Kall, F. L., eds. 2014. Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine. Albany: SUNY Press.
Other Information Sources
1.
Smith, D. W. 2013. Phenomenology. In: Zalta, E. N., ed. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. [viewed 28.03.2022.]