Abstract
Being born is the most “natural” event (biologically defined) and, at the same time, the most complex event. The progressive medicalization of birth has led to a decreased interest in the lived experience which accompany it. Focusing on the delivery and the way it is conducted from a medical perspective, in a positivist vision, means reduce the existential relevance of childbirth (becoming a parent and caring relationship) to a purely biological reality, to the body-as-organism rather then to the body-as-person.\r\nThe phenomenological science, investigating sense, pursues a new epistème. The phenomenological method opens new paths to a new form of science which, rather than explain childbirth from a causal point of view, tries to comprehend its sense, connecting it to existential and historical situation, thereby guarding its complexity.\r\nHuman life as a whole is born from a woman’s body. The maternal body is origin of the “coming into the world”, fundamental element in the relationship between human and medical science, and in the ethics of care.
Lingua originale | Inglese |
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Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Coming into the world: a dialogue between Medical and Human Sciences |
Editore | de Gruyter |
Pagine | 25-45 |
Numero di pagine | 21 |
ISBN (stampa) | 9783110190182 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2006 |
Pubblicato esternamente | Sì |
Keywords
- Birth
- ethic of care
- lived experience
- maternal body
- phenomenological method