Healthy Embodiment

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the experience of health and investigates how this experience is shaped by recent developments in medicine and public health. It shows how phenomenological and Foucauldian approaches to health can be systematically integrated into a general account of healthy embodiment.

Bas de Boer is an assistant professor in the philosophy of technology at the University of Twente. He is the author of How Scientific Instruments Speak (2021) and editor of the recent volume Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology (2024).

Introduction: The Enigma of Health? 1. Our Two Bodies - Phenomenology, Health, and Biomedicine 2. Our Three Bodies - Medicalisation, Population, Public Health 3. Health, Medicine, and Power 4. Technological Incorporation and the Experience of Health 5. Personalized Medicine and Healthy Embodiment Epilogue