Contents -- 1 Why Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine? -- Phenomenology and Medicine -- Feminist Phenomenology -- Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine in This Volume -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Illness Experience: A Feminist Phenomenological Perspective -- Illness and the Illness Experience -- Illness v. Health -- Illness/Disease -- Toward the Illness Experience -- The View from Without: Some Examples from ALS -- Illness Experience and Phenomenology -- Beyond the View from Within and the View from Without -- Toward a Phenomenology of Illness Experience -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 3 Visceral Phenomenology: Organ Transplantation, Identity, and Bioethics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 4 Communal Pushing: Childbirth and Intersubjectivity -- Merleau-Ponty's Contribution -- Feminist Readings of Merleau-Ponty -- Merleau-Ponty and the Communal -- Notes -- References -- 5 Phenomenology, Cosmetic Surgery, and Complicity -- The Problem of Complicity -- Merleau-Ponty and the Lived Body -- Norms, Incorporation, and Expression -- Toward a Phenomenology of Complicity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Uncosmetic Surgeries in an Age of Normativity -- A Visit to the Dentist -- The Three Ns: The Natural, the Normal, and the Normative -- Rhetorics of Enhancement in Contemporary Bioethics -- Rethinking Enhancement -- Notes -- References -- 7 "BIID"? Queer (Dis)Orientations and the Phenomenology of "Home" -- BIID: What's in a Name? -- The Clint Hallam International Surgical Soap Opera -- Reconfiguring the Phenomenology of Home -- Notes -- References -- 8 Sexed Embodiment in Atypical Pubertal Development: Intersubjectivity, Excorporation, and the Importance of Making Space for Difference -- Introduction -- Female Bodily Self-Awareness Reconsidered -- Incorporation, Excorporation, and Emotions in Shared Space.

Sexed Style of Being: Rethinking Female Embodiment -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 9 Reassigning Ambiguity: Intersex, Biomedicine, and the Question of Harm -- The Body Schema and Its "I Can" -- Being Seen, Being Loved: Conditions of Human Emergence -- Jim's Story -- A New Man, the Same Kid -- Toward an Embodied Ethics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 10 Feminism, Phenomenology, and Hormones -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 11 The Body Uncanny: Alienation, Illness, and Anorexia Nervosa -- The Alien Body -- Phenomenology of Illness -- Anorexia Nervosa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12 Toward a Phenomenology of Disfigurement -- Introduction -- Embodiment as Social Construction: Liberating and Unsettling -- The Social Value of Disfigurements -- Embodied Self-Experience: An Individual and a Social Affair -- Phenomenology of Disfigurement in Practice -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 13 "She's Research!" Exposure, Epistemophilia, and Ethical Perception through Mike Nichols' Wit -- Introduction -- Exposure to Epistemophilia: Exposure of Flesh -- Limitations of Objectification and the Doing of Flesh -- Testimony of the Body between the Lines of Medical Description -- Toward an Ethics of Exposure -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 14 Anaesthetics of Existence -- Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence -- (Feminist) Anaesthetics -- A Feminist Phenomenology of the Anaesthetics of Existence? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 15 Wandering in the Unhomelike: Chronic Depression, Inequality, and the Recovery Imperative -- Phenomenology, Depression, and the Self -- Meaning-Making, Bodily Metaphors, and the Lived Body -- Public Processes and Bodily Resonance -- The Trouble with Normal -- Questing Together, Accompanied by Bear -- Acknowledgments -- References.

List of Contributors -- Index.