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145A strange hand: On self-recognition and recognition of anotherPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 8 (3): 321-342. 2009.This article provides a phenomenological analysis of the difference between self-recognition and recognition of another, while referring to some contemporary neuroscientific studies on the rubber hand illusion. It examines the difference between these two forms of recognition on the basis of Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s work. It argues that both phenomenologies, despite their different views on inter-subjectivity, allow for the specificity of recognition of another. In explaining self-recogniti…Read more
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89The Meaning of Body Experience Evaluation in OncologyHealth Care Analysis 19 (4): 295-311. 2011.Evaluation of quality of life, psychic and bodily well-being is becoming increasingly important in oncology aftercare. This type of assessment is mainly carried out by medical psychologists. In this paper I will seek to show that body experience valuation has, besides its psychological usefulness, a normative and practical dimension. Body experience evaluation aims at establishing the way a person experiences and appreciates his or her physical appearance, intactness and competence. This valuati…Read more
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88Sex and Enhancement: A Phenomenological–Existential ViewAmerican Journal of Bioethics 10 (7): 20-22. 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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65Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity in Disfiguring Breast CancerHypatia 27 (2): 281-300. 2012.In this paper, I explore the meaning of bodily integrity in disfiguring breast cancer. Bodily integrity is a normative principle precisely because it does not simply refer to actual physical or functional intactness. It rather indicates what should be regarded and respected as inviolable in vulnerable and damageable bodies. I will argue that this normative inviolability or wholeness can be based upon a person's embodied experience of wholeness. This phenomenological stance differs from the liber…Read more
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43The Surprise of a Breast Reconstruction: A Longitudinal Phenomenological Study to Women’s Expectations About Reconstructive SurgeryHuman Studies 38 (3): 409-430. 2015.While having a breast reconstruction, women have certain expectations about their future breasted bodies. The aim of this paper is to describe and analyze these expectations in the process of reconstruction. By applying a qualitative, phenomenological study within a longitudinal research design, this paper acknowledges the temporarily complex, contextualized, embodied, and subjective nature of the phenomenon of expectations. The analysis identified expectations regarding three different aspects …Read more
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40Multiple dimensions of embodiment in medical practicesMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17 (4): 549-557. 2014.In this paper I explore the various meanings of embodiment from a patient’s perspective. Resorting to phenomenology of health and medicine, I take the idea of ‘lived experience’ as starting point. On the basis of an analysis of phenomenology’s call for bracketing the natural attitude and its reduction to the transcendental, I will explain, however, that in medical phenomenological literature ‘lived experience’ is commonly one-sidedly interpreted. In my paper, I clarify in what way the idea of ‘l…Read more
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34Recovering 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
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33Age 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...
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30Our Strange Body: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions (edited book)Amsterdam University Press. 2014.The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways—from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics—is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: t…Read more
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28Recovering 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
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26Can You Restore My “Own” Body? A Phenomenological Analysis of Relational AutonomyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (8): 18-20. 2016.
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25Grenzen aan het vreemdeWijsgerig Perspectief 47 (2): 6-16. 2007.Dit themanummer is gewijd aan de grenzen van het lichaam. Een grens bepaalt wat tot het eigene behoort en wat niet. Vanuit verschillende perspectieven zullen wij de grenzen tussen het eigene en het vreemde thematiseren. In dit artikel leid ik deze problematiek in aan de hand van Jean-Luc Nancy's filosofische analyse van de vreemdheid van het eigen lichaam
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23Is It Possible to “Incorporate” a Scar? Revisiting a Basic Concept in PhenomenologyHuman Studies 39 (3): 347-363. 2016.Although scars never disappear completely, in time most people will basically get used to them. In this paper I explore what it means to habituate to scars against the background of the phenomenological concept of incorporation. In phenomenology the body as Leib or corps vécu functions as a transcendental condition for world disclosure. Because of this transcendental reasoning, phenomenology prioritizes a form of embodied subjectivity that is virtually dis-embodied. Endowing meaning to one’s wor…Read more
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21De 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
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20Hand 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
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18Embodied Self-Identity in Neuro-Oncology: A Phenomenological ApproachAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (3): 12-13. 2010.
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18Can We “Remedy” Neurohype, and Should We? Using Neurohype for Ethical DeliberationAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 7 (2): 97-99. 2016.
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17Zien en zijn: Merleau-ponty's ontologie Van ontwijkende zichtbaarheidTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 59 (2). 1997.The aim of this article is to demonstrate that a certain connection between 'seeing'and 'Being' can be traced within the later work of Merleau-Ponty. It is argued that a theory of seeing which is developed from a radical phenomenological point of view is nota confirmation, but rather a critique of Western representational ontology. The centralprinciple of this critique is formed by the notion of reversibility. By means of the reversible relation between the seer and the seen, and between the vis…Read more