Topic
Phenomenology research, explained
8 open-access phenomenology studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Are pain and suffering just body vs mind?
After dropping mind/body dualism, pain cannot stay ‘only physical’ and suffering ‘only psychological’; both are whole-person experiences shaped by attitude and culture.
- Is autonomy only a cognitive capacity test?
English capacity law treats autonomy as understanding, retaining, using and weighing information; phenomenology adds bodily and affective engagement as part of autonomous deciding.
- Why isn’t chronic pain just tissue damage?
Chronic pain is an individual, more-than-physical experience; the authors oppose a Cartesian healthcare model with Husserlian intentionality and the lived person in pain.
- Can you experience health, not only illness?
De Boer rejects the idea that health stays invisible until breakdown. Health becomes present in the not-always-harmonious interaction between the lived body and the body-as-object.
- Is caring responsibility only a choice we take?
Care ethics treats responsibility as something taken or refused; a radical phenomenology adds a passive, invisible call that comes from outside the subject.
- Can how pregnancy feels guide the ethics of abortion?
The author argues that the moment a pregnant woman first feels the foetus move is a principled place to set the time limit for abortion on request.
- Is planning your end-of-life care really a matter of choice?
The author argues that advance care planning overstates choice and control, and should make room for hesitation, acceptance and responsibility shared with the people who must act.
- How do family doctors frame everyday moral choices?
Family doctors seem to handle everyday ethics by first framing a situation through three yes-or-no judgments, a process the authors argue fits Løgstrup's phenomenological ethics better than the four principles of bioethics.