Phenomenology of the Body

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved

Course Description Version:11.00

Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:40

Study Course Information
Course Code:		HZK_030		LQF level:		Level 7
Credit Points:		2.00		ECTS:		3.00
Branch of Science:		Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind and Cognition		Target Audience:		Medicine; Dentistry; Nursing Science; Rehabilitation
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:		Māra Grīnfelde
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:		Faculty of Social Sciences
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:		Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szfrsu[pnkts]lv
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)		6	Lecture Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Lectures		12
Classes (count)		10	Class Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Classes		20
Total Contact Hours								32
Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
No previous knowledge required.
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.
Topic Layout (Full-Time)
No.	Topic			Type of Implementation		Number	Venue
1	Introduction to the phenomenology of medicine			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		1.00	auditorium
2	Structures of the Lived Body			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
3	Experience of the Gendered Body			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
4	Illness			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
5	Illness: Case Studies			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
6	Lived Body in Medical Environment			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		1.00	auditorium
7	Altered Bodily Experiences			Classes		1.00	auditorium
8	Experience of the Social Body			Classes		1.00	auditorium
9	Lived Body and Emotions: Shame			Classes		1.00	auditorium
10	Lived Body and Identity			Classes		1.00	auditorium
11	Phenomenology of Ageing and Dying			Classes		1.00	auditorium
12	Technologies and Health Care			Classes		1.00	auditorium
13	Lived body in medical environment			Classes		1.00	auditorium
14	Written test			Classes		1.00	auditorium
Assessment
Unaided Work:
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.
Assessment Criteria:
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.
Final Examination (Full-Time):		Exam
Final Examination (Part-Time):
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:		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:		With the help of the phenomenological concepts, students will be able to analyze concrete cases within health care.
Competencies:		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.
Bibliography
No.	Reference
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.]