Can Illness Be Edifying?

by Ian James Kidd

Forthcoming in Inquiry.

Havi Carel has recently argued that one can be ill and happy. An ill person can ‘positively respond’ to illness by... more

Physical and Virtual Environments: Meaning of Place and Space

by David Seamon

To be published as chapter 18 in Willard & Spackman’s Occupational Therapy, 12th Edition, B. Schell & M. Scaffa, editors. Philadelphia: Wippincott, Williams & Wilkens, 2012 © David Seamon

Since the 1980s, occupational therapists and scientists have given increasing attention to how qualities of physical... more

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Serious Illness and Supernatural Agents: Explanatory Models for Diseases which Defy Explanation

by Julia Gamble

Journal of the University of Manitoba Students' Association 29., 2011

Serious illness which threatens mortality, does not respond to treatment, and has no obvious cause, elicits sensations... more

Physical and Virtual Environments: Meaning of Place and Space

by David Seamon

To be published as chapter 18 in Willard & Spackman’s Occupational Therapy, 12th Edition, B. Schell & M. Scaffa, editors. Philadelphia: Wippincott, Williams & Wilkens, 2012 © David Seamon

Since the 1980s, occupational therapists and scientists have given increasing attention to how qualities of physical... more

The experience of the body in chronic illness

by Jehangir Saleh

This is a draft version of a paper I have given at York University's Graduate Conference in Disability Studies (2011), and at The Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease conference at Oxford University (2007).

Working from a phenomenological standpoint, as well as my own experience living with cystic fibrosis, I argue that... more

Diabetes, Chronic Illness and the Bodily Roots of Ecstatic Temporality

by David Morris

Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences (2008), 31 (4). pp. 399-421.

This article studies the phenomenology of chronic illness in light of phenomenology’s insights into ecstatic... more

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