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medical phenomenology
Friday 11 July 2003
Definition: medical phenomenology is the study of medical phenomenons.
Types
clinics: clinical phenomenology
macroscopy: macroscopical phenomenology
microscopy: microscopical phenomenology
medical biology: biological phenomenology
medical biology: physiological phenomenology
Phenomenalism
The phenomenalism is the view that diseases cannot justifiably be said to exist in themselves, but only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli (e.g. clinical signs , symptoms , morphological anomalies , physiological anomalies , etc.) situated in time and in space.
References
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Todres L, Wheeler S. The complementarity of phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism as a philosophical perspective for nursing research. Int J Nurs Stud. 2001 Feb;38(1):1-8. PMID: 11137717
Yegdich T. In the name of Husserl: nursing in pursuit of the things-in-themselves. Nurs Inq. 2000 Mar;7(1):29-40. PMID: 11022533