Some of the authors who have contributed to this volume are philosophers, some are engaged in other academic disciplines, and several are practicing healthcare professionals. Their essays demonstrate that because phenomenology provides extraordinary insights into many of the issues that are directly addressed within the world of medicine it can be an invaluable practical tool, not only for those who are interested in the philosophy of medicine, but for all healthcare professionals who are actively engaged in the care of the sick.

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Acknowledgements. Introduction: Phenomenology and Medicine; S.K. Toombs. Section One: Phenomenology and Medicine. Temporality and Illness: A Phenomenological Perspective; J.B. Brough. The Lifeworld and Scientific Interpretation; P.A. Heelan. Medicine and the Phenomenological Method; F.C. Waksler. The Phenomenology of Health and Illness; F. Svenaeus. The Phenomenological and Conceptual Center of Practical-Clinical Medicine; P. Sundström. Thinking About Medicine; R.M. Zaner. Section Two: The Body. Dimensions of Embodiment: Body Image and Body Schema in Medical Contexts; S. Gallagher. Female Embodiment and Clinical Practice; M. Connolly. Emotion and Embodiment within the Medical World; G.A. Mazis. The Body, Music, and Healing; B. Wilshire. Section Three: Lived Experience. Experiencing Illness Through Storytelling; A.W. Frank. Reflections on Bodily Change: The Lived Experience of Disability; S.K. Toombs. The Lived Experience of Pain in the Context of Clinical Practice; I. Madjar. The Lived Experience of Mental Illness; J.A. Walton. Section Four: Clinical Practice. Grasping the Existential Anatomy: The Role of Bodily Empathy in Clinical Communication; C.E. Rudebeck. The Many Faces of the Clinic: A Levinasian View; P. Komesaroff. Focusing on Lived Experience: The Evolution of Clinical Method in Western Medicine; I.R. McWhinney. The Phenomenon of Care; P. Benner. The Phenomenon of Suffering and its Relationship to Pain; E.J. Cassell. Section Five: Medical Ethics. Imagining a Fetus: Insights From Talking with Pregnant Women About Their Decisions To Undergo Open-Uterine Fetal Surgery; M.J. Bliton. On Bodily Autonomy;C. Mackenzie. Medical Feeding: Applying Husserl and Merleau-Ponty; M.C. Brannigan. Section Six: Research. Professional Practice and `Doing Phenomenology'; M. van Manen. From Dis-ability to Difference: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Study of Physical Disability; C. Papadimitriou. Notes on Contributors. Index.