Every 3-4 weeks I organize a 1,5 hours meeting during which we discuss important and actual theoretical literature pertaining to the meaning of embodiment in health and medicine.
We read chapters and papers from different disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, and disability studies. These meetings are open for all academics (PhD students, (post-doc)researchers) who have an interest in theories on the body and beyond.
These meetings are HYBRID: meeting online through zoom and meeting in person at the Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University.
If you would like to join us, or would like to get more information about our upcoming readings and schedule, please contact me.
Schedule
Spring 2025
Thursday 11-12.30
January 16, 2025
February 6, 2025
February, 27, 2025
March 20, 2025
April, 10, 2025
May 8, 2025
June 6, 2025
June 26, 2025
Readings from the past:
2024
♦ Chen, R. en J.K.B.O. Friis. (2024). Vision, body and interpretation in medical imaging diagnostics. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 27 (2): 253-266.
♦ Lara Birk. “Erasure of the Credible Subject: An Autoethnographic Account of Chronic Pain”
♦ Hayden Kee (2024). Phenomenological insights from postural yoga practice. In: The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness
♦ the novel “The big ward/De grote zaal” by Jacoba van Velde
♦ Joel Reynold’s (2022) “The Life Worth Living” – chapter on “A Phenomenology of Chronic Pain”
♦ Sara Asu Schroer (2021) Jakob von Uexküll: The Concept of Umwelt
and its Potentials for an Anthropology Beyond the Human, Ethnos, 86:1, 132-152
♦ Thomas J Csordas (2024). Something other than its own mass: Embodiment as corporeality, animality, and materiality. Anthropological Theory
♦ Monica Greco (2012). The classification and nomenclature of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’: Conflict, performativity and critique. Social Science & medicine.
♦ Chernelle Lambert, Paolo S. H. Favero & Luc Pauwels (2022) Making life
stories visible: an ethnographic study of body mapping in the context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, Anthropology & Medicine, 29:2, 175-192
♦ Helena Dahlberg (2018). Beyond the absent body—A phenomenological contribution to the understanding of body awareness in health and illness.
2023
♦ M.L. Johnson (2021) Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
♦ Bruno Latour. How to talk about the body? The normative dimension of science studies. Body & Society, 2004, 10 (2-3), pp.205-229.
♦ Dan M Kotliar, Dan M Kotliar (2023). On the Contesting Conceptualisation of the Human Body: Between ‘Homo- microbis’ and ‘Homo-Algorithmicus’. Body & Society
♦ Drew Leder (2016. The Experiential Paradoxes of Pain. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 41: 444–460,
♦ Ingunn Moser (2005) ON BECOMING DISABLED AND ARTICULATING ALTERNATIVES, Cultural Studies, 19:6, 667-700
♦ Amy Chandler (2016). Self-Injury, Medicine and Society Authentic Bodies
♦ M. Foucault The birth of the clinic – the chapter on “Open up a few corpses”.
♦ Monica Meiijsing (2022). A Philosophy of Person and Identity. Chapter 9 “Here I am”
♦ Sue L. Motulsky (2021). Is Member Checking the Gold Standard of Quality in Qualitative Research? Qualitative Psychology.
2022
♦ Doerte Weig (2020). Fascias: Methodological Propositions and Ontologies That Stretch and Slide. Body & Society
♦ N. Waltham-Smith (2018). Confronting continental philosophy’s fears of biologism
♦ Maren Wehrle (2020). Being a body and having a body. The twofold temporality
of embodied intentionality. Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences.
♦ Emily Martin (2007). Bipolar Expeditions Chapter 5.
♦ Novel “The fat lady sings” by Jacqueline Roy
♦ selected chapters from Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad’s Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India.
♦ Adriana Cavarero. For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression. introduction
♦ ‘Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome’ by De Beauvoir.
♦ Deleuze & Guatteri Body without Organs
♦ Annemarie Mol (2012). Mind your plate! The ontonorms of Dutch dieting. Social Studies of Science
♦ Matthew Ratcliffe (2015) Experiences of Depression: Chapter 2, Experiencing the Possible
♦ Sara Ahmed “Cultural Politics of Emotion”. chapter 3
2021
♦ Chapter 2 from Donna Dickenson’s Property in the body: Feminist Perspectives (2007)
♦ Chapter 2 from Donna Dickenson’s ‘Body-shopping’ (2008)
♦ Chapter 5 from Frantz Fannon’ ‘Black skin, white masks’ (originally published in 1952, English translation by Charles Lam Markmann)
♦ Ataria and Tanaka (2020) When body image takes over the body schema: The case of Frantz Fanon. Human Studies
♦ Chapter 1 from Helen Ngo’s ‘The habits of racism. A phenomenology of racism and racialized embodiment’ (2012)
♦ Hardon and colleagues (2019) Sexual and reproductive self care among women and girls: Insights from ethnographic studies. BMJ: 1-4
♦ Hardon and Idrus (2015) Magic power: changing gender dynamics and sex-enhancement practices among youths in Makassar, Indonecia. Anthropology & Medicine 22(1): 49-63
♦ Chadwick (2017) Embodied methodologies: Challenges, reflections and strategies. Qualitative Research 17(1): 54-74
2020
♦ Fuchs and Koch (2014) Embodied affectivity: On moving and being moved. Frontiers in Psychology 5 (article 508): 1-12
♦ Sheets-Johnstone (2018) Why kinesthesia, tactility and affectivity matter: Critical and constructive perspectives. Body and Society 24(4): 3-31
♦ Aho (2013) Depression and embodiment: Phenomenological reflections on motility, affectivity, and transcendence. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16: 751-759
♦ Svenaeus (2013) Depression and the self: Bodily resonance and attuned being-in-the-world. Journal of Consciousness Studies 20(7-8): 15-32
♦ Blease, Carel and Geraghty (2016) Epistemic injustice in healthcare encounters: Evidence from chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Medical Ethics 43: 549-557
♦ Carel and Kidd (2014) Epistemic injustice in healthcare: A philosophical analysis. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17: 529-540
♦ Chapter 2 from Jean-Luc Nancy’s ‘Corpus’ (1992, translated by Richard A. Rand)
♦ Chapter 3 from Ian James’ ‘The fragmentary demand: An introduction to the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy’ (2006)
♦ Chapters 1 and 2 from Plessner’s ‘Laughing and crying: A study on the limits of human behavior’ (1940, translated by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene in 1970)
♦ Grene (1966) Positionality in the philosophy of Helmuth Plessner. The Review of Metaphysics 20(2): 250-277.
♦ Fausto-Sterling (2019) Gender/Sex, sexual orientation, and identity are in the body: How did they get there? The Journal of Sex Research: 1-27
♦ Arinkha (2019) The interoceptive turn. AEON.co
♦ Leder’s chapter ‘Inside insights: A phenomenology of interoception’ in The interoceptive mind: From homeostasis to awareness (2019, edited by Tsakiris and Preester)
♦ Weiss’ chapter ‘The ‘normal abnormalities’ of disability and aging. Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir’ in Feminist phenomenology futures (2017, edited by Fielding and Olkowki)
♦ Gilleard and Higgs (2015) Aging, embodiment, and the somatic turn. Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2: 17-33
♦ Thomas Heerma van Voss’ novel ‘Condities’ (2020)
♦ Dolezal (2017) The phenomenology of self-representation: Describing the structures of intercorporeality with Erving Goffman. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16: 237-254.
♦ Damian Milton’s paper ‘‘Here comes the trouble’: Autism and gender performance’
♦ Chapter 4 from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ‘The visible and the invisible’ (originally published in 1964, translation in 1968)
♦ Chapter 4 from Sanneke de Haan’s ‘Enactive psychiatry’
Sections from Hanna Arendt’s ‘The human condition’ (second edition 1998)
2019
♦ Introduction and chapter 5 from Susan Oyama’s ‘The ontogeny of information’
♦ Mehling et al. (2009) Body awareness: Construct and self-report measures. PLoS ONE 4(5): e5614
♦ Khoury et al. (2017) Embodied mindfulness. Mindfulness 8: 1160-1171
Chapter 4 from Elizabeth Grosz’ ‘The incorporeal’
♦ Fox (2011) The ill-health assemblage: Beyond the body-with-organs. Health Sociology Review 20(4): 359-371
♦ Groven, Råheim and Engelsrud (2013) Dis-appearance and dys-appearance anew: living with excess skin and intestinal changes following weight loss surgery. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16: 507-523.
♦ Heyes (2018) Two kinds of awareness: Foucault, the will, and freedom in somatic practice. Human Studies 41: 527-544
♦ First and second meditations from Rene Descartes’ (published in 1641)
Excerpt from Rene Descartes’ ‘Treatise on Man’ (written in 1630, published in 1664)
♦ Pinch (2011) Karen Barad, quantum mechanics, and the paradox of mutual exclusivity. Social Studies of Science 41 (3): 431-441
♦ Introduction and chapter 1 from Judith Butler’s ‘Bodies that matter
♦ ’Hanna Bervoet’s novel ‘Welkom in het rijk der zieken’ (2019)
♦ Susan Sontag’s ‘Illness as Metaphor’ (1977)
♦ Chapters 6 and 7 from Skof and Berndtson’s ‘Atmospheres of breathing’ (2016)
♦ Scheper-Hughes and Lock (1987) The mindful body: A prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1(1): 6-41
♦ Section from Tomkins’ ‘Affect, imagery, consciousness: The positive affects’ (1962)
♦ Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘The emotions: Outline of a theory’ (1948, translated by Frechtman)
2018
♦ Ian Hacking, “Making up people”
♦ Ian Hacking, “The looping effect of human Kinds”
♦ Ian Hacking, “Madness: Biological or Constructed”, in The Social Construction of What?
♦ Bernard Williams, “The self and the future, from Problems of the Self
♦ Selection of chapters from Annemarie Mol, The body multiple
♦ Michael Jackson (1983). “Knowledge of the Body”, Man, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 327-345
♦ Selection of chapters (1 and 3) from Sarah Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology
♦ Nick Crossley, “Fat is a sociological issue”
♦ Selection of chapters (5 and 6) from Drew Leder’s “The Absent Body”
♦ Chapter 2 from Richard Shusterman’s “Body Consciousness. A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics”
♦ Hubert L. Dreyfus (2002). “Intelligence without representation – Merleau-Ponty’s critique of mental representation”, Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 1, pp 367-383
♦ Sections of Maurice Merleau Ponty’s “Phenomenology of Perception”
♦ Chapter 2 from Drew Leder’s “The Distressed Body”
♦ Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman, “Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain”, in Beyond the Body Proper
♦ Selection of chapters (2 and 4) from Elizabeth Wilson’s “Gut Feminism”
♦ Anne Fausto-Sterling (2005). “The Bare Bones of Sex”, Signs, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp 1491-1527
2017
♦ Chapter 4 from Alva Noë, Out of our Heads
♦ Marc Slors, Léon de Bruin, Derek Strijbos, Introduction and Chapter 1 from Philosophy of Mind, Brain and Behavior
♦ Introduction from Shaun Gallagher & Dan Zahavi, The Phenomenological Mind
♦ Nick Crossley, “Merleau-Ponty, the elusive body and carnal sociology”
♦ Thomas Csordas (1990), “Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology”
♦ Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson (2014), “Intense Embodiment: Senses of Heat in Women’s Running and Boxing”
♦ Jean Grimshaw, “Working out with Merleau-Ponty”
♦ Lakoff and Johnson (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh, chapters 3 & 25
♦ Erwin Straus, “The Upright Posture”
♦ Iris Young, “Throwing like a Girl”
♦ Emily Heavey, “Narrative Bodies, Embodied Narratives”
♦ Havi Carel, “Phenomenology and its application in medicine”
♦ Megan Warin (2014). “Material Feminism, Obesity Science and the Limits of Discursive Critique”
2016
♦ Deborah Lupton “Quantifying the body: Monitoring and measuring health in the age of Health technologies”
♦ Selection of chapters Jenny Edkins Face Politics
♦ Selection of chapters from Stacy Alaimo, Susan Hekman Material Feminism
♦ Selection of chapters from Rosemary Garland-Thompson Staring
♦ Selection of chapters from Luna Dolezal The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body
♦ Anne Pollock “Heart Feminism”
Tim Ingold “When ANT meets SPIDER”
♦ Tim Ingold “Footprints through the weather-world”
♦ Tim Ingold “Culture on the ground”
♦ Lesley Sharp “The invisible woman: The bioaesthetics of engineered bodies”
♦ Dawn Goodwin “Reshaping bodies, reshaping agency”
♦ Stefan Hirschauer “The manufacture of bodies in surgery”
♦ Lucie Dalibert “Living with spinal cord stimulation: Doing embodiment and incorporation”
♦ Laura Mamo & Jennifer Ruth Fosket “Scripting the body: Pharmaceuticals and the (re)making of menstruation”
♦ Deborah Lynn Steinberg “The bad patient: Estranged subjects of the cancer culture”
♦ Kari Nyheim Solbraekke & Hilde Bondevik “Absent organs-present selves”
♦ Jackie Leah Scully “Disability and the Thinking Body”
Before 2016
♦ Daniel Black “What is a Face?”
♦ Bernadette Wegenstein and Nora Ruck “Physiognomy, Reality Television and the Cosmetic Gaze”
♦ Selection of chapters from James Aho and Kevin Aho A phenomenology of sickness, disease and illness
♦ Max van Manen “Modalities of Body Experience in Illness and Health”
♦ Selection of chapters from Lisa Blackman Immaterial Bodies
♦ Selection of papers from Margaret Lock & Judith Farquhar (ed). Beyond the body proper
♦ Selection of chapters from Sarah Ahmed Queer Phenomenology
♦ Selection of chapters from Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception
♦ Selection of chapters from Don Ihde Technology and the lifeworld
♦ Selection of chapters from Chris Shilling The body and social theory
♦ Annemarie Mol The Body Multiple
♦ Nick Crossley The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire
♦ Jackie Stacey Teratologies. A Cultural study of Cancer
♦ Arthur Frank, The wounded story-teller
♦ Nelly Oudshoorn “Sustaining cyborgs”