身体性としてのケア : 相互主観的プロセスにおける病むことの意味

抄録

The tendency to deal with the human body as an object has deeply permeated modern medical practice. In the area of nursing and care, I find no exception. However, if we carefully observe our body, we become aware that our hands encounter with each other as we hold out or withdraw them together. Nurses interact with many people including patients in the clinical situation. They can act first by using their body. There is no act without(the use)of the body. The basic attitude of the nurses in dealing with others is to act with consideration(or thoughtfulness)named 'care'. The nurses read patients' condition with their own sensitivity, then they make decisions as to what sort of physical help they could give. This situation does not imply a one-way relation between nurses and patients through their own intention or act. It indicates a condition of coexistence, affecting one another in a certain way through the action of both the nurses and patients. This also does not imply a man-thing relation. It is an intersubjective relation sensed through each other's body. I hope to search for the meaning of suffering by describing the intersubjective process derived from the encounter with a patient with illusionary leg pain as a methodological path with the idea that the human body is not at all an object in clincal reality. Furthermore the ultimate goal of the report is an attempt to overcome the duality of mind and body in medical practice.