Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD Candidate of Philosophy, University of Tabriz
2 Associate Professor of Philosophy Department, University of Tabriz
Abstract
Today, phenomenology, with an emphasis on direct explanations with regard to the lived experience of people is interest of different areas and their scholars have tried to take advantage of it. Medical science is one of them that uses of this approach because of their problems because doctor and sick lack the same understanding of the fact of illness. Since the body in the medical field is Central, hence the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty with its special emphasis on body has attracted in this area. By suggesting new definition of body, Merleau- ponty believed that body is the central of subjectivity and being- in- the – world, so this enable doctors and patients to achieve the same understanding of the disease based on the patient lived experience. This paper attempts to examine the implications of this new concept of the body as it is described in the medical field
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