Introduction: Phenomenology and Medicine. - Section One / Phenomenology and Medicine. - Temporality and Illness: A Phenomenological Perspective. - The Lifeworld and Scientific Interpretation. - Medicine and the Phenomenological Method. - The Phenomenology of Health and Illness. - Disease: The Phenomenological and Conceptual Center of Practical-Clinical Medicine. - Thinking About Medicine. - Section Two / The Body. - Dimensions of Embodiment: Body Image and Body Schema in Medical Contexts. - Female Embodiment and Clinical Practice. - Emotion and Embodiment Within the Medical World. - The Body Music and Healing. - Section Three / Lived Experience. - Experiencing Illness Through Storytelling. - Reflections on Bodily Change: The Lived Experience of Disability. - The Lived Experience of Pain in the Context of Clinical Practice. - The Lived Experience of Mental Illness. - Section Four / Clinical Practice. - Grasping the Existential Anatomy: The Role of Bodily Empathy in Clinical Communication. - The Many Faces of the Clinic: A Levinasian View. - Focusing on Lived Experience: The Evolution of Clinical Method in Western Medicine. - The Phenomenon of Care. - The Phenomenon of Suffering and its Relationship to Pain. - Section Five / Medical Ethics. - Imagining a Fetus: Insights From Talking With Pregnant Women About Their Decisions To Undergo Open-Uterine Fetal Surgery. - On Bodily Autonomy. - Medical Feeding: Applying Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. - Section Six / Research. - Professional Practice and Doing Phenomenology'. - From Dis-ability to Difference: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Study of Physical Disability. - Notes on Contributors. Language: English