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Healthy embodiment

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"This book provides a philosophical analysis of the experience of health and investigates how this experience is shaped by recent developments in medicine and public health. It shows how phenomenological and Foucauldian approaches to health can be systematically integrated into a general account of healthy embodiment. Many medical practitioners argue for a shift from curative to preventative medicine. Technoscientific developments now enable us to track our health and provide more effective ways to live healthily. This book argues that these developments shape how we experience the health of ourselves and others, as well as the way in which we distinguish between health and illness. Its starting point is that health is not so much an object with well-defined boundaries that can be scrutinized scientifically but is better understood as an embodied experience. The author uses phenomenology and the work of Foucault to develop a theory of healthy embodiment. He argues that experiencing oneself as a healthy subject requires being made present as a healthy object by someone or something else. He explores how the experience of health results from the interaction between being a subject and being an object and potentially involves challenging medical norms. Healthy Embodiment will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in phenomenology, science and technology studies, medical humanities, bioethics, and sociology of medicine"-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction : the enigma of health? -- Our two bodies- phenomenology, health, and biomedicine -- Our three bodies- medicalisation, population, public health -- Health, medicine, and power -- Technological incorporation and the experience of health -- Personalized medicine and healthy embodiment.

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Boer, Bas de. Healthy embodiment

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:19:31.533017+00:00
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  • Derived from: 23966767

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
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