1st Edition
Healthy Embodiment Philosophical Reflections on the Experience of Health
Introduction: The Enigma of Health?
1. Our Two Bodies – Phenomenology, Health and Biomedicine
2. Our Three Bodies – Medicalisation, Population, Public Health
3. Health, Medicine and Power
4. Technological Incorporation and the Experience of Health
5. Personalized Medicine and Healthy Embodiment
Epilogue
Biography
Bas de Boer is an assistant professor in the philosophy of technology at the University of Twente. He is the author of How Scientific Instruments Speak (2021) and editor of the recent volume Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology (2024).
“Healthy Embodiment is rich and timely contribution to the phenomenology of embodiment and the philosophy of health and illness. By focusing specifically on the meaning and experience of health, Bas de Boer offers an astute Foucauldian critique that illuminates the extent to which technologies of biomedicine and public health policies discipline the body and shape our understanding and experience of health. The book will be a valuable resource in the philosophy of medicine and critical health studies for years to come.”
Kevin Aho, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
