Kristin Zeiler
University of Cambridge, CRASSH: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Visiting Pro Futura Fellow
I am professor at the Department of Thematic Studies: Technology and Social Change and Director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, both at Linköping University, Sweden.
My research examines ethical, philosophical, and socio-cultural aspects of the development and use of medical therapy, surgery, and technology. It examines subjective and intersubjective meaning-making, issues pertaining to embodiment, and normativity. I investigate the role of embodiment for subjectivity and agency, as when we live with pain or illness; my research also examines how specific assumptions and norms about bodies are expressed, transformed, strengthened or questioned in medicine and the implications of such expressed or enacted normativities.
My research examines ethical, philosophical, and socio-cultural aspects of the development and use of medical therapy, surgery, and technology. It examines subjective and intersubjective meaning-making, issues pertaining to embodiment, and normativity. I investigate the role of embodiment for subjectivity and agency, as when we live with pain or illness; my research also examines how specific assumptions and norms about bodies are expressed, transformed, strengthened or questioned in medicine and the implications of such expressed or enacted normativities.
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The chapter is divided into three parts. First, I make use of the phenomenological understanding of the intercorporeal self as being-in-the-world, in a discussion of how pain, fear or bodily symptoms of ESRD that unfolds in the shared space of child and parent can shape both of them in relation to each other (c.f. Käll 2013; Zeiler 2014a), feed into their bodily style of being-together, and help form parents’ perception of actions ‘within’ reach for them. Second, I shift the focus from the parent–child dyad to the larger semiotic–material context of haemodialysis and kidney transplantation in Sweden. This allows for an examination of embodied and enacted normativities, through an engagement with what Martin Gunnarson (2016: 128) has identified as a ‘dominant […] orientation towards transplantation’ in Sweden and Latvia. This second part also combines the discussion of an orientation towards transplantation with that of how norms about parenthood may be incorporated and excorporated into parents’ lived bodies,4 thereby making it possible to show why the no-choice theme in previous empirical work is understandable but more disconcerting than may first be assumed. Third, I argue that the acknowledgement of intercorporeal dimensions of bodily existence (argued for in Part I) and the role of orientation (argued for in Part II) demonstrates the need for a thinking-through of the autós of autonomous decision making, i.e. the understanding of the ‘ownness’ of this decision making, in ways other than those argued for in much of the bioethical autonomy and relational autonomy literature.
Kristin Zeiler is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden, and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala University, Sweden. Lisa Folkmarson Käll is Docent of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Division of Health and Society at Linköping University, Sweden. She is the editor of Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives.
This book is a study in empirical ethics, that combines qualitative research with a philosophical, conceptual analysis. It combines a narrative analysis of interviews with eighteen Brittish, Italian and Swedish geneticists and gynecologits with a philosophical analysis of conditions for choice and for the sub-category autonomous choice and of trust. The book starts in the narrative analysis, moves to the philosophical analysis and uses the results of the latter when re-investigating the empirical examples. It is, in this sense, dialogical in character.
Papers by Kristin Zeiler
The chapter is divided into three parts. First, I make use of the phenomenological understanding of the intercorporeal self as being-in-the-world, in a discussion of how pain, fear or bodily symptoms of ESRD that unfolds in the shared space of child and parent can shape both of them in relation to each other (c.f. Käll 2013; Zeiler 2014a), feed into their bodily style of being-together, and help form parents’ perception of actions ‘within’ reach for them. Second, I shift the focus from the parent–child dyad to the larger semiotic–material context of haemodialysis and kidney transplantation in Sweden. This allows for an examination of embodied and enacted normativities, through an engagement with what Martin Gunnarson (2016: 128) has identified as a ‘dominant […] orientation towards transplantation’ in Sweden and Latvia. This second part also combines the discussion of an orientation towards transplantation with that of how norms about parenthood may be incorporated and excorporated into parents’ lived bodies,4 thereby making it possible to show why the no-choice theme in previous empirical work is understandable but more disconcerting than may first be assumed. Third, I argue that the acknowledgement of intercorporeal dimensions of bodily existence (argued for in Part I) and the role of orientation (argued for in Part II) demonstrates the need for a thinking-through of the autós of autonomous decision making, i.e. the understanding of the ‘ownness’ of this decision making, in ways other than those argued for in much of the bioethical autonomy and relational autonomy literature.
Kristin Zeiler is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at Linköping University, Sweden, and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala University, Sweden. Lisa Folkmarson Käll is Docent of Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Division of Health and Society at Linköping University, Sweden. She is the editor of Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives.
This book is a study in empirical ethics, that combines qualitative research with a philosophical, conceptual analysis. It combines a narrative analysis of interviews with eighteen Brittish, Italian and Swedish geneticists and gynecologits with a philosophical analysis of conditions for choice and for the sub-category autonomous choice and of trust. The book starts in the narrative analysis, moves to the philosophical analysis and uses the results of the latter when re-investigating the empirical examples. It is, in this sense, dialogical in character.