The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien 2012
Published: 2015-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

We will return to Ted in the next part of this work, but at this point I want to underline the importance of the patient’s interpretation of his situation. This interpretation — an attuned understanding — is not only formed from things we experience directly, but also from things we are told. To be told by the doctor that you have cancer almost certainly will ‘produce’ a feeling of illness in you even if the disease in itself produces no symptoms. The being-in-the-world of the patient seems to change its structure to an attunement of illness as the patient is informed of the disease. This is certainly not a new discovery, but references to ‘psychological factors’ in medicine are not sufficient for an understanding of how the entire existence of the patient actually changes its structure through the patient being told he has a disease. Ted, in the example, actually starts to reinterpret his past, present and future in the face of the possible diagnosis. Did I not in fact have symptoms before although I did not notice? Do I not really feel something now? What will happen to me and my life in the future?

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