Taking embodiment seriously in public policy and practice: adopting a procedural approach to health and welfare.

ABSTRACT: It is a common refrain amongst phenomenologists, disability theorists, and feminist legal theorists that medical practice pays insufficient attention to people's embodiment. The complaint that we take insufficient account of people's embodiment isn't limited to the clinical interaction. It has also been directed at healthcare regulation and welfare policy. In this paper, I examine the arguments for taking embodiment seriously in both medical practice and welfare policy, concluding we have good reasons to take better account of people's embodiment. I then set out two challenges to taking embodiment seriously in public policy. First, given the amount of variation in how people are embodied, there is strong possibility that adjusting policy to benefit particular individuals based on an apprec

SUBMITTER: Roberts JTF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10754762 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature