-
1Toward A Phenomenology of DisfigurementIn Kristin Zeiler & Lisa Folkmarson Käll (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine, State University of New York Press. pp. 223-240. 2014.
-
4Toward a Phenomenology of AbnormalityIn Talia Welch & Susan Bredlau (eds.), Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, Suny Press. pp. 19-39. 2022.
-
29Can You Restore My “Own” Body? A Phenomenological Analysis of Relational AutonomyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (8): 18-20. 2016.
-
19Sharing lives, sharing bodies: partners negotiating breast cancer experiencesMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22 (2): 253-265. 2019.By drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy of ontological relationality, this article explores what it means to be a ‘we’ in breast cancer. What are the characteristics—the extent and diversity—of couples’ relationally lived experiences of bodily changes in breast cancer? Through analyzing duo interviews with diagnosed women and their partners, four ways of sharing an embodied life are identified. While ‘being different together’, partners have different, albeit connected kinds of experiences of …Read more
-
11Producing ME/CFS in Dutch Newspapers. A Social-Discursive Analysis About Non/credibilitySocial Epistemology 37 (5): 592-609. 2023.Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a highly contested illness. This paper analyzes the discursive production of knowledge about, and recognition of ME/CFS. By mobilizing insights from social epistemology and epistemic injustice studies, this paper reveals how actors, through their social-discursive practices, attribute to establishing, sustaining, and disregarding their own and others’ epistemological position. In focusing on the case of the Dutch newspaper reportin…Read more
-
12To Hear One’s Body. A Phenomenological Analysis of Body Awareness in Health and IllnessChiasmi International 24 257-273. 2022.“You need to listen better to your body!” is a common prescription in contemporary health discourse. From a phenomenological perspective, we can say that the ability to hear your body implies body awareness. In this paper, I will provide a phenomenological analysis of the different ways in which the “audible body” can appear, and how this is related to health, drawing on the work of Merleau-Ponty, Shusterman, Leder, and Nancy. In Merleau-Ponty’s early work, so I explain, the “lived body” emerges…Read more
-
7Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested IllnessesBody and Society 28 (4): 28-52. 2022.This article is based on an online ethnographic study of Dutch women who use YouTube as a medium to document their contested illness experiences. During 13 months of observations between 2017 and 2019, we followed a sample of 16 YouTubers, and conducted an in-depth analysis of 30 YouTube videos and of 7 interviews. By adopting a ‘praxiographic’ approach to social media, and by utilising insights from phenomenological theory, this study teases out how bodies are ‘done’ in (the making of) these Yo…Read more
-
12Mobilizing the Sense of “Fat”: A Phenomenological Materialist ApproachHuman Studies 44 (4): 675-692. 2021.This paper aims to mobilize the way we think and write about fat bodies while drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy of the body. I introduce Nancy’s approach to the body as an addition to contemporary new materialism. His philosophy, so I argue, offers a form of materialism that allows for a phenomenological exploration of the body. As such, it can help us to understand the lived experiences of fat embodiment. Additionally, Nancy’s idea of the body in terms of a “corpus”—a collection of pieces …Read more
-
6Fenomenologie van ziekte en abnormaliteitAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112 (1): 1-24. 2020.Phenomenology of illness and abnormality Habitually, illness or disease is considered as something abnormal. Therefore, the distinction between health/illness is often conflated with the distinction normal/abnormal. Inspired by Kurt Goldstein’s work, Merleau-Ponty makes clear, however, that abnormality does not automatically coincide with pathology. It is also interesting to note that Merleau-Ponty nowhere uses the term “abnormal” to indicate the opposite of the normal person. Similar to Georges…Read more
-
4RepliekAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112 (1): 65-72. 2020.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
-
24Hand Transplants and Bodily IntegrityBody and Society 16 (3): 69-92. 2010.In this article, we present an analysis of bodily integrity in hand transplants from a phenomenological narrative perspective, while drawing on two contrasting case stories. We consider bodily integrity as the subjective bodily experience of wholeness which, instead of referring to actual bodily intactness, involves a positive identification with one’s physical body. Bodily mutilations, such as the loss of a hand, may severely affect one’s bodily integrity. A possible restoration of one’s experi…Read more
-
36Age Difference in the Clinical Encounter: Intersectionality and PhenomenologyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (2): 32-34. 2019.Wilson and colleagues (Wilson et al. 2019) argue that an intersectional approach to the clinical encounter can facilitate trust and understanding between patients and clinicians. An intersectional...
-
14The Mediated Breast: Technology, Agency, and Breast CancerHuman Studies 41 (2): 275-292. 2018.Women intimately interact with various medical technologies and prosthetic artifacts in the context of breast cancer. While extensive work has been done on the agency of technological artifacts and how they affect users’ perceptions and experiences, the agency of users is largely taken for granted hitherto. In this article, we explore the agency of four women who engage with breast cancer technologies and artifacts by analyzing their narrative accounts of such engagements. This empirical discuss…Read more
-
26De persoon met dementieAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 110 (3): 249-271. 2018.The person with dementia: A plea for a (non-metaphysical) relational notion of personhood In this article we explore the notions of personal identity and personhood, using concrete descriptions of the experiences of people living with dementia as a case study. From an analytical point of view we argue against memory or psychological-continuity criteria of personal identity as too cognitive. Instead we focus on embodiment. The person with dementia, as an embodied human being, is numerically the v…Read more
-
21Can We “Remedy” Neurohype, and Should We? Using Neurohype for Ethical DeliberationAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 7 (2): 97-99. 2016.
-
21Embodied Self-Identity in Neuro-Oncology: A Phenomenological ApproachAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (3): 12-13. 2010.
-
12Filosoferen over littekensAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 109 (1): 25-43. 2017.Philosophizing on Scars: Plea for a Material Turn in PhenomonologyIn this paper, I provide a philosophical reflection on the meaning of scars while drawing on phenomenological studies of the body. According to Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, the body as Leib or corps vécu functions as a transcendental condition for world disclosure. Because of this transcendental reasoning, phenomenological studies concerning embodiment often prioritize a form of embodied subjectivity that is virtually immaterial. En…Read more
-
15The Mediated Breast: Technology, Agency, and Breast CancerHuman Studies 41 (2): 275-292. 2018.Women intimately interact with various medical technologies and prosthetic artifacts in the context of breast cancer. While extensive work has been done on the agency of technological artifacts and how they affect users’ perceptions and experiences, the agency of users is largely taken for granted hitherto. In this article, we explore the agency of four women who engage with breast cancer technologies and artifacts by analyzing their narrative accounts of such engagements. This empirical discuss…Read more
-
29Recovering a "Disfigured" FaceTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 21 (1): 1-23. 2017.Prosthetic devices that replace an absent body part are generally considered to be either cosmetic or functional. Functional prostheses aim to restore (some degree of) lost physical functioning. Cosmetic prostheses attempt to restore a “normal” appearance to bodies that lack (one or more) limbs by emulating the absent body part’s looks. In this article, we investigate how cosmetic prostheses establish a normal appearance by drawing on the stories of the users of a specific type of artificial lim…Read more
-
16Facing a Disruptive Face: Embodiment in the Everyday Experiences of “Disfigured” IndividualsHuman Studies 40 (2): 285-307. 2017.In recent years, facial difference is increasingly on the public and academic agenda. This is evidenced by the growing public presence of individuals with an atypical face, and the simultaneous emergence of research investigating the issues associated with facial variance. The scholarship on facial difference approaches this topic either through a medical and rehabilitation perspective, or a psycho-social one. However, having a different face also encompasses an embodied dimension. In this paper…Read more
-
2Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908-2008: Filosofie als herdenkingTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 70 (3): 453-456. 2008.
-
1Phenomenology of the iconIn Robert Vallier, Wayne Jeffrey Froman & Bernard Flynn (eds.), Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy: Transforming the Tradition, State University of New York Press. 2009.
-
9Corporeity and Affectivity: Dedicated to Maurice Merleau-Ponty (edited book)Brill. 2013.This volume focuses on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s important contribution to the phenomenology of corporeity and affectivity, and it explores the various influences his work had and still has on other disciplines
-
2An Ethics of Embodiment: The Body as Object and SubjectIn Darian Meacham (ed.), Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, Springer Verlag. 2015.