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    Chapter 15 Invisible Suffering

    The Experience of Breathlessness

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    Author(s)
    Carel, Havi
    Collection
    Wellcome
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    This chapter presents a philosophical framework for the understanding of the experience of breathlessness. I suggest that the experience of breathlessness is total and overwhelming to the sufferer, but also largely invisible to the outsider. How does this tension play itself out for the respiratory patient? How does this tension affect respiratory medicine and clinical work? How could the first-person experience of breathlessness be better understood? Can it be usefully harnessed in the clinic? And what can a distinctively philosophical analysis offer this process? These questions are explored in the chapter, in the hope of providing a sketch of such a philosophical framework aimed at understanding this debilitating and common symptom. The structure of the chapter is as follows. It begins with an overview of breathing and the symptom of breathlessness, and how breathlessness is inter-preted in the clinic and outside it. The second section provides a phenomenological account of breathlessness, moving away from understanding it as a medical symptom to understanding it as a broader existential, social, personal, cultural, and psychological phenomenon. The final section examines how such a philosophical framework may be operationalized in a respiratory clinic, providing some examples of its possible clinical uses.
    Book
    Atmospheres of Breathing
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48595
    Keywords
    philosophy; breathlessness; breathing
    ISBN
    9781438469744, 9781438469737
    Publisher
    State University of New York Press
    Publisher website
    http://www.sunypress.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Albany, 2018
    Grantor
    • Wellcome Trust - 103340
    Classification
    Philosophy
    Philosophy
    Pages
    14
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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