The many faces of the clinic

a Levinasian view

Paul Komesaroff

pp. 317-330

in: Toombs (ed), Handbook of phenomenology and medicine, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

People go to doctors for many reasons: for the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, to make sense of unusual experiences in their bodies that they suspect may be related to illness, for reassurance that they do not have a serious condition, for advice about how to avoid such conditions, for help in dealing with life crises like unemployment, bereavement, marriage breakdown, or for assistance with the passage through natural processes like pregnancy and menopause. Often, several such reasons occur together.

Cited authors

Levinas Emmanuel