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The disease-subject as a subject of literature

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Kottow, Andrea R. Kottow, Michael H.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Based on the distinction between living body and lived body, we describe the disease-subject as representing the impact of disease on the existential life-project of the subject. Traditionally, an individual's subjectivity experiences disorders of the body and describes ensuing pain, discomfort and unpleasantness. The idea of a disease-subject goes further, representing the lived body suffering existential disruption and the possible limitations that disease most probably will impose. In this limit situation, the disease-subject will have to elaborate a new life-story, a new character or way-of-being-in-the-world, it will become a different subject. Health care professionals need to realize that patients are not mere observers of their body, for they are immersed in a reassesment of values, relationships, priorities, perhaps even life-plans. Becoming acquainted with literature's capacity to create characters, modify narratives and depict life-stories in crisis, might sharpen physicians' hermeneutic acumen and make them more receptive to the quandaries of disease-subjects facing major medical and existential decisions in the wake of disruptive disease.
Starting Page	10
Ending Page	10
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
PubMed reference number	17603873
Volume Number	2
Journal	Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/9e/5c/1747-5341-2-10.PMC1936426.pdf
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Experience Malaise Pain Parkinson Disease Patients Personality Character Women's Health Services observers
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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