PhD Courses in Denmark

Welcome to Existential Healthcare Communication as an Aesthetical and Philosophical Practice

This course is free of charge for PhD students regardless where you come from.

Course responsible: Professor Finn Thorbjørn Hansen finnth@ikp.aau.dk

Date: November 25-28, 2024

Deadline: 23 October 2024

Place: Aalborg University, Department of Communication & Psychology, Research Section ‘Arts, Aesthetics & Health’

Max participants: 20

Course language: English

ECTS: 3

Requirements:

Before the course:

We will ask each participant to write and send a short description (4 pages) of their research project and describe in what way they find phenomenological dimensions in their research and what their main phenomenological question and wonderment currently is.

After the course:

We will ask each participant to make a 7-pages reflection on the notion of ‘Existential Health’ as they see it now, and where and how they see the relevance as well as challenges in working with existential healthcare communication through inspiration from aesthetical and philosophical  (contemplative) practices.

Lecturer(s):

·       Professor Finn Thorbjørn Hansen, Head of TEN, Aalborg University

·       Professor Carlo Leget, Chair of Care Ethics, University of Humanities, Utrecht, The Netherlands

·       Associate Professor Rasmus Dyring, Department of Philosophy, Aarhus University

·       Senior Researcher Mai-Britt Guldin, Research Unit for GP and Department of Public Health, Aarhus University

Professor Finn Thorbjørn Hansen is full professor of applied philosophy and head of the research group TEN (Time, Existence & Nature connectedness), Art, Aesthetics & Health, Department of Communication, University of Aalborg (Denmark). He has been a Visiting Professor at Agder University in Kristiansand (Norway) where he was head of an international research project ‘Wonder, Silence and Human Flourishing’(Hansen et al, 2023). His research focus and specialty is the phenomenology and ethics of wonder, existential and ethical phenomenology and ‘philosophical and phenomenological action research’. He has been heading several external funded research projects in the field of Health Care, Higher Education, Innovation and research on Artistic Creation. He is the founder of the Danish Society for Philosophical Practice and have written several books on wonder and philosophical counselling practices. For more information:

https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/123561

Professor Carlo Leget is full professor of care ethics and research director at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and director of the Center for Loss and Existential Values in Aarhus. As chair of the care ethics department, he is responsible for the Master in Care Ethics & Policy at his university, and his research focuses on the intersection of care, meaning and end of life issues. Since 2015 he is a member of the Health Council of the Netherlands and the Care Ethics Research Consortium. For more information:

https://www.uvh.nl/contact/vind-een-medewerker?person=nhrjrsEsHowOfbPwC

Associate Professor Rasmus Dyring is associate professor of philosophy at Aarhus University. He works in the cross section between medical anthropology and the philosophy of healthcare doing mainly phenomenological research in conversation with ethnographic material. His main research interests are aging and dementia in a phenomenological perspective with a focus on potentiality and creativity. Dyring is the principal investigator of a VELUX HUMpraxis-project devoted to investigating, and developing practice that facilitates, everyday creativity in life with dementia.

For more information: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/rasmus-dyring(ed0be392-1816-42d4-bd7d-d8885a31860c).html

Senior Researcher Mai-Britt Guldin is a psychologist and senior researcher at Research Unit for General Practice and Department for Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark and director of Center for Loss and Existential Values in Aarhus. Her research focus is on loss, grief, and end of life issues and for years she chaired her own research program and authored several books about loss and grief. Currently she is running the Center for Loss and Existential Values in Aarhus.

Short description of and Program for the course:

Existential Healthcare Communication as an Aesthetical and Philosophical Practice

Different disciplines use various methodologies and epistemologies to research and study existential healthcare communication. In this PhD course, we bring together approaches from psychology, spiritual-existential care, and philosophy, and we study their differences and points of intersection.

Day 1 focuses on the relationship between a psychological (Dr. Mai-Britt Guldin) and a spiritual-existential approach (Prof. Carlo Leget).

Day 2 focuses on philosophical approaches based on critical phenomenology (Dr. Rasmus Dyring) and wonder-based phenomenology (Prof. Finn Thorbjørn Hansen).

On Day 3 we explore the approaches and their methodologies and learn how to work with them academically.

Day 4 starts with ‘phenomenology in action’ through experiencing a ‘Wonder Lab’, and in the afternoon, focus on the Ph.D. students’ projects with supervision. 

This course is of specific interest to Ph.D. students with a background in psychology, nursing, anthropology, medicine, theology, sociology, and philosophy. 

Day 1. Introduction and Existential and Spiritual Health Care

10.00-10.30 Introduction to the course – Finn Thorbjørn Hansen 

10.40-12.30 Existential healthcare communication and communication between disciplines: tensions, challenges and possibilities - Mai-Britt Guldin & Carlo Leget

12.30-13.15 Lunch

13:15-14:45 An integrative approach to loss and grief: development of an interdisciplinary model – Mai-Britt Guldin & Carlo Leget

14:45-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-16:00: Working with the Integrative Process Model of loss and grief in existential healthcare communication - Mai-Britt Guldin & Carlo Leget

16:00-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:00: Panel discussion and dialogue on “Integrative Process Model of loss and grief” — MaiBritt-Guldin, Carlo Leget, Rasmus Dyring & Finn Thorbjørn Hansen

Day 2. Eco-phenomenological and world-oriented healthcare

9:30 – 10:30: Basic dimensions in Existential, Critical and Eco-phenomenology – Finn and Rasmus

10:45-12:15: How to get from Person-centered Care to Word-open Care and Back (1): Everyday Creativity in Dementia Care --- Rasmus.

12:15-13:00. Lunch

13:00-14:30: How to get from Person-centered Care to Word-open Care and Back (2): how art and philosophical experiences may nurture Eco-Existential and Wonder-based relations between people and relations to the world based on a case from Aalborg University Hospital. --- Finn

14:30-14:45: Coffee break

14:45: A Case about Everyday Creativity and Micro Existential Dramas in One Situation in Dementia Unit --- Rasmus.

16:15:-17:00: Panel discussion and dialogue on how artistic, creative, and philosophical practices can enhance and nurture eco-existential health and spiritual recovery --- Rasmus, Finn, Carlo and Mai-Britt.
 

Day 3. Doing research on existential healthcare communication and ‘existential and spiritual experiences’

9.30-10.30: Doing research from a psychological perspective - Mai-Britt Guldin

10:30-10:45: Coffee break

10.45-11.45: Doing research from a spiritual care perspective – Carlo Leget

11.45-12.30: Dialogue with Mai-Britt and Carlo

12.30-13.15: Lunch

13:15-14:15: Doing research from a philosophical (critical relational-ontological) perspective - Rasmus

14:15-14:30: Coffee break

14:30-15:30: Doing research from a phenomenological action research perspective - Finn

15:30-16:15: Dialogue with Rasmus and Finn

16:15-17:00: PhD-students work in groups developing research/wonder questions

Day 4. Wonder Lab and PhD-students’ projects with supervision

9:30 – 12:00. Exercise in Wonder Lab and reflections – Finn & Carlo

12:00-12:45: Lunch:

12:45-14:15: Students work in groups on PhD-students projects with supervision (part 1)

14:15-14:30: Coffee break

14:30-16:00:  Students work in groups on PhD-students’ projects with supervision (part 2)

16:00-17:00: Summing up and dialogue around the PhD-students’ research/wonder questions --- Carlo & Finn

Background description for the course, incl. learning objectives and prerequisites:

In the research section ‘Arts, Aesthetics & Health’ at Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, we are in different ways inquiring into the relationship between how liberal arts, aesthetical experiences, and health (or well-being) might be interconnected.

In this four days PhD-seminar we will focus on the phenomenological and existential dimensions of communication and search for meaning in healthcare professions, and professions where both the interhuman (person- and human-centered), worldly and interspecies (nature- and phenomenon-led) care are central.

For decades, professionals and researchers in healthcare and human-centered professions have called for a re-humanization of health, education, and welfare. This has been described as responding to an unsettling tendency in these professions of feeling “out of tune with life” or “out of resonance” with the core values of their professions (Kitson et al. 2010; Galvin & Todres, 2013; Uhrenfeldt et al., 2018; Martinsen, 2018; Rosa, 2019; Hansen & Jørgensen, 2020). Lately, this quest for a re-humanization of health, education and welfare has now also been connected to a deeper ontological and existential connection with the world as such (Biesta, 2022; Dyring & Grøn, 2022, Dyring, 2023; Hansen, Eide & Leget, 2023).

The concept of Health and what it phenomenological is like to feel healthy in contrast to naturalistic theories of health have also for some years been connected to a state of “homelike being-in-the-world”(Sevenaeus, 2000, 2011, 2016), “Authentic Homecoming” (Galvin & Todres, 2013), “Existential Rootedness”(Ücok-Sayrak, 2019) or “Ontological Homecoming”(Hansen & Jørgensen, 2020; Hansen, Eide & Leget, 2023).

However, what is meant by authentic or ontological “homecoming” or “world-centered”, “world-open” and “nature- and phenomenon-led” care differ because of different understandings of what an ontological and existential relation and resonance (Rosa, 2019) with the world is.

Seen from an eco-phenomenological perspective: How are dignity, humanness, care ethics, care aesthetics (Thompson, 2023), and spiritual care as important concepts and practices in existential health communication to be understood from a non-anthropocentric world-care perspective? What is meant by health in existential and spiritual care if we need to involve such an eco-phenomenological approach (where health is more than what we mean by bio-medical (physical) health and psycho-sociological (mental) health? Why is it for example, that Hans-Georg Gadamer, in his reflections on truth, methods, and health (2004, 2006, 2007) puts such an emphasis on the experience of art and philosophy as portals to another ontological and existential connection to Being or Nature as such? Is it possible through deep experiences of wonder and presence that we as human beings can learn to get into more healthy relations and resonance with the world and the meaningfulness we may experience by co-being-in-the-world?

In this PhD-course we are going especially to inquire into three questions:

1)       How do we in Existential Healthcare Communication work in theory and practice with a new notion of ‘Existential Health’ (or Existential Sustainability), which on the one hand is closely connected to what Hartmut Rosa coins as ‘Existential Resonance’(Rosa, 2019), and Svenaeus (2000) and Todres & Galvin (2010), and Hansen & Jørgensen (2020) through Heidegger (Heidegger, 1995) describe as a kind of “ontological homecoming”, and on the other hand with the experience of feeling connected to nature seen from an eco-phenomenological perspective (Sallis, 2016; Abram, 2017; Nelson, 2021;Verducci & Kule, 2022)?

2)       Why is it that especially ‘art experiences’ (song, music, art works, dance, poetry) and ‘philosophical experiences’ (such as philosophizing and wondrous conversations and dialogical communities of wonder) and sometimes also more spiritual rituals and practices seem to create a special kind of soul-nurturing and spirit-strengthening ‘non-time’ and ‘non-space’ when indwelling into existential questions and experiences of people in care, their relatives or of caretakers? How are we to understand the enigmatic relation between Health Humanities and Environmental Humanities, or between human health and planetary health (Wahl, 2006; 2016)? 

3)       How do we do research on the existential, spiritual, and eco-phenomenological dimensions in healthcare communication? How can you through theoretical studies pave the way for new orientations in understanding existential care ethics and healthcare communication in a non-anthropocentric perspective that rests on ontology and phenomenology that puts the aesthetical and philosophical experiences in the center? And how do you do qualitative and empirical research on these subjects through practice phenomenology (Van Manen, 2014, 2023), action research (Dinkens & Hansen, 2016; Hansen, 2022) or art-based research (Visse, Hansen & Leget, 2019, 2020)?

Each lecturer on the course will take his/her departure from a specific healthcare context and health issue and show how he/she work in this context and with this health issue through aesthetical (or everyday creativity) experiences or/and philosophical (dialogical) experiences.

On the first day Carlo Leget and Mai-Britt Guldin will set the stage by a methodological reflection on existential and spiritual communication in healthcare in three lectures: 1) Introducing the healthcare sector as a place where different disciplines and paradigms meet. What are the challenges and obstacles for existential communication from a psychological perspective and from a spiritual perspective? 2) Crossing the boundaries of paradigms: How to connect knowledge from different disciplines and professions in healthcare: the example of the Integrated Process Model of loss and grief, its scientific foundation and its methodological underpinning; 3) Spirituality, hermeneutics and the arts: Focusing on the development of the Diamond Model for spiritual conversation (Leget, 2017, 2022, and 2023) the spiritual dimension will be explored, the importance of the non-cognitive dimensions of meaning, and the role of the arts, opening the way to a phenomenological approach.

On the second day 

Dyring will focus on the everyday-creative and existential dimensions of communication when working with people in the care of dementia. (Dyring 2022a, Dyring 2022b), and 2) how to facilitate the sharing of a world that includes people who are many different places in their dementia (Dyring and Grøn 2021). Together these issues call for “world-open care” (Dyring 2022a, Dyring 2023) as a critical supplement to the reining paradigm of “person-centered care” (Kitwood 2019).

Finn Thorbjørn Hansen will focus on what can be meant by existential health as “Ontological Homecoming” and ‘World- and Phenomenon-led Care”. Hansen will take his departure on the research on ‘Culture on Prescription’ and the new notion of ‘Culture Medicine’. He will especially show how the phenomenology of wonder and practices of being in ‘Communities of Wonder (Hansen, 2015, Hansen & Jørgensen, 2020; Hansen, et al., 2023) can nurture what can be understood as health through the notion of ‘ontological homecoming’ based on Late Heidegger and eco-phenomenological perspectives. On the practice-methodological level, he will describe how he works with the interplay between art experiences and philosophical dialogues (through the dialogue model ‘the Wonder Compass’, Hansen, 2022, 2023) when working with parents in grief and with cancer patients and their relatives and caretakers.

On the third day, the four lecturers will give each a methodological description of how they in practice work as researchers-in-the-field with phenomenology, philosophical practices, or art-based research.

On the fourth and final day, the Ph.D. students will participate in the morning session in a Wonder Lab Session led by Hansen and Leget, experiencing different forms of working with their research questions in wondrous, aesthetical, philosophical, and contemplative ways. In the afternoon session, the Ph.D. students will in groups, reflect upon self-chosen methodological or theoretical questions that have been awoken during the course and in relation to their own research project. 

Teaching methods:

The course will be organized through lectures, dialogues, and interactivity through workshops.

The organizer of this course is Professor Finn Thorbjørn Hansen.

Morning and afternoon lectures in Day 1, 2 & 3 will be thematically organized to address the questions listed above. The lectures will be followed by questions and discussions in groups and class.

On Day 4, the participants will be divided into groups of 5-6 participants. It is expected that every group member has read all abstracts and key questions in their group before the course. Before the course starts, the participants will be asked to do two things:

1) write an abstract that describes their research project and their main research question (wonder), and

2) to list at least 5 questions that have come up while reading the mandatory literature of this course.

Important information concerning PhD courses: 

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.

We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.

Key literature:

Mandatory readings

Dyring, Rasmus. 2022a. “Dementia Care Ethics, Social Ontology and World-Open Care: Phenomenological Motifs.” In Eriksen, C and N. Hämäläinen (eds.) Perspectives on Moral Change: Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage Transformations of Life Worlds. 106-125. New York: Berghahn Books.

Dyring, Rasmus. 2023. “Existential Care Ethics.” In Wardle, Huon, Nigel Rapport and Albert Piette (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Existential Human Science. 173-182. London: Routledge.

Esperandio, M. R. G., & Leget, C. (2022). Opening a hermeneutic space for spiritual care practices. HORIZONTE-Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião, 20(62), e206204-e206204.

Guldin, M., Leget, C. (2023). The Integrated Process Model of loss and grief. An interprofessional understanding. Death Studies, published online https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2023.2272960

Hansen, F.T. (2022). What would an Apophatic Action Research look like? International Journal of Action Research, Eikeland (ed.), special issue on «Conceptualizing AR». Vol. 18, Issue 2/2022, pp: 100–115.

Hansen, F.T. (2024). The Sense of Wonder as a necessary ‘Philosophical Literacy’ in Healthcare. In: Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare (Dellenborg, L. & Enstedt, D. Eds.), p. 217-231. London: Routledge.

Hansen, F.T. (2024). Wonder and Philosophy as Grounding Sources in Health Humanities. In: Crawford, P., Kadetz, P. (eds) Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities, p. 1-15. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26825-1_221-2

Hansen, F.T. (2024). Existential Health and Spiritual Recovery: Two possible new and important concepts in Health Humanities. The Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, Vol. 6, No. 1: 1-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18261/njach.6.1.3

Hansen, F.T. & Jørgensen, L.B. (2020). A contribution to the ontology of the Fundamentals of Care Framework from a Wonder-based Approach. Journal of Clinical Nursing, Vol 29, No. 11-12 (Special Issue). Pp: 1797-1807. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15272

Hansen, F.T. & Jørgensen, L.B. (2021). Wonder-inspired Leadership: Or how to cultivate ethical and phenomenon-led health care. Nursing Ethics: Vol. 28, No. 6 (September): 951-966. https://doi-org.zorac.aub.aau.dk/10.1177/0969733021990791

Haufe, M., Leget, C., Potma, M., & Teunissen, S. (2023). Better spiritual support for people living with early stage dementia: Developing the diamond conversation model. Dementia, 14713012231213907.

Leget, C. (2017). Art of Living, Art of Dying: Spiritual Care for Good Death. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Leget, C. & Boelsbjerg, H. B. (2023). The Art of Spiritual Care.: Implications for the use of instruments and tools. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 20(38), 71-86.

Leget, C. (2023). Inner Space, Resonance, and Wonder. In: Hansen, Eide Leget (eds), Wonder, Silence, and Human Flourishing: Toward a Rehumanization of Health, Education, and Welfare, 47-63.

Van Wijngaarden, E., Leget, C., & Goossensen, A. (2016). Disconnectedness from the here-and-now: a phenomenological perspective as a counteract on the medicalisation of death wishes in elderly people. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 19(2), 265-273.

Visse, M., Hansen, F.T. & Leget, C. (2019). The Unsayable in Arts-Based Research: on the Praxis of Life Itself. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol. 18: 1-13 (DOI: 10.1177/1609406919851392)

Visse, M., Hansen, F.T. & Leget, C. (2020). Apophatic Inquiry: Living the Questions Themselves. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol. 19: 1-11.

Additional readings:

Basting, Anne. 2020. Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care. 43-136. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Bauman, Z. & Donskis, L. (2013). Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity. Cambridge:Polity Press.

Bellass, Sue, et al. 2019. ‘Broadening the Debate on Creativity and Dementia: A Critical Approach’, Dementia 18(7–8): 2799–820.

Capobianco, R. (2011). Engaging Heidegger. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Capobianco, R. (2015). Heidegger’s Way of Being. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Cobb, M., Puchalski, C., & Rumbold, B. (Eds.). (2012). Oxford textbook of spirituality in healthcare. OUP Oxford.

Cooper, D. (2012). Living with Mystery: Virtue, Truth, and Practice. European Journal of Philosophy of Religion,4(3): 1-13.

Crawford, P., Brown, B. & Charise, A. (eds.)(2020). The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities. London: Routledge.

Dinkins, C. S. Hansen, F.T. (2016). Socratic Wonder as a Way to Aletheia in Qualitative Research and Action Research. In: HASER. Revista Internacional de Filosofía Aplicada, Nr. 7: 51-88.

Dyring, Rasmus. 2022b. “On the Silent Anarchy of Intimacy: Images of Alterity, Openness and Sociality in Life with Dementia” In Mattingly, Cheryl and Lone Grøn (eds.) Imagistic Approaches to Aging and Care: Conversations between Anthropology, Philosophy and Art. 109-136. New York: Fordham University Press.

Dyring, Rasmus and Lone Grøn. 2022. “Ellen and the Little One: A Critical Phenomenology of Potentiality in Life with Dementia.” Anthropological Theory 22(1): 3-25.

Evans, H.H. (2016b). Medicine, the body and an invitation to wonder. Medical Humanities, June, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp: 97-102.

Franke, W. (2014). A Philosophy of the Unsayable. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.

Gallagher, A. (2020). Slow Ethics and the Art of Care. Howard House, Bingley: Emerald Publishing.

Galvin, K., & Todres, L. (2013). Caring and well-being: a lifeworld approach. London: Routledge.

Han, B.-C. (2015). The Burnout Society. Stanford, CA: Stanford briefs.

Han, B.-C. (2017). The Scent of Time. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Han, B.-C.(2023). Vita Contemplativa. Polity Press.

Hansen, F.T. (2015). The Call and Practice of Wonder. How to evoke a Socratic Community of Wonder in professional settings. In: M. N. Weiss (ed.), The Socratic Handbook, pp. 217-244. Vienna: LIT Verlag.

Hansen, F.T. (2016). At undre sig ved livets afslutning: Om brug af filosofiske samtaler i palliativt arbejde [To Wonder at the End the of Life: On the Use of Philosophical Conversations in Palliative Care]. Copenhagen: Academic Publisher.

Hansen, F.T. (2019). Negativ fænomenologi [Negative Phenomenology]: . In: Michael Rasmussen & Mogens Pahuus (eds.), Mennesket og det andet: Bidrag til den eksistentielle fænomenologi, s. 151-178. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag.

Hansen, F.T. (2022). At skrive sig ud mod det gådefulde via undringens fire verdenshjørner. In: Herholdt-Lomholdt, S. (red.), Fenomenologi. å leve,samtale og skrive ut mot det gåtefulle i tilværelsen, s. 47-78 Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.

Hansen, F.T. (2023). Apophatic and Existential Wonder as a Humanizing Force. In: Hansen, F.T., Eide, S.B., & Leget, C. (2023). Wonder, Silence, and Human Flourishing: Towards a humanization of the professions of Health & Care, Welfare and Education, p. 21-46. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Heidegger, M. (1995). The fundamental concepts of metaphysics: World, finitude, solitude. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Køster, A. & Kofod, E.H. (2022). Cultural, Existential, and Phenomenological Dimensions of Grief Experience. Routledge.

Mugerauer, R. (2008). Heidegger and homecoming: The leitmotif in the later writings. Toronto: University ofToronto Press.

Nygaard et al. (2022). Existential in Scandinavian Healthcare Journals: An Analysis of the Concept and Implications for Future Research. Religions, Vol. 13(979): 1-43. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100979

Richards, Ruth. 2010. ‘Everyday Creativity: Process and Way of Life – Four Key Issues’, in J.C. Kaufman and R.J. Sternberg (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 189–215.

Käll, Lisa F. 2017. ‘Intercorporeal Expression and the Subjectivity of Dementia’, in Luna Dolezal and Danielle Petherbridge (eds), Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 359–86.

Kitwood, Tom. 2019. Dementia Reconsidered, Revisited: The Person Still Comes First, 2nd ed, Edited by  Dawn Brooker. 6-23, 44-63, 104-122. London: Open University Press.

Kontos, Pia. 2006. ‘Embodied Selfhood: An Ethnographic Exploration of Alzheimer’s Disease’, in Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen (eds), Thinking about Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp. 157–79.

Køster & Kofod

Leget, C., van Nistelrooij, I., & Visse, M. (2019). Beyond demarcation: Care ethics as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Nursing ethics, 26(1), 17-25.

Rosa, H. (2019). Resonance. A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Schinkel, A. (2018). Wonder and moral education. Educational Theory, 68(1), 31–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12287

Svenaeus, F. (2000). The hermeneutics of medicine and the phenomenology of health: Steps towards a philosophy of medical practice. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Thorsted, A.C. & Hansen, F.T. & (2022). At tænke med hjertet: En grundbog i eksistentiel praksisfænomenologi. [To Think With the Heart: Basic Reflections on Existential Praxis Phenomenology]. Aarhus: Klim. (378 pages)

Todres, L., Galvin, K. T., & Holloway, I. (2009). The humanization of healthcare: A value framework for qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 4(2), 68-77.

Todres, L., & Galvin, K. (2010). “Dwelling-mobility”: An existential theory of well-being. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 5(3), pp. 1-6.

Tronto, J. C. (1993). Moral boundaries: A political argument for an ethic of care. Psychology Press.

Ücok-Sayrak, Ö. (2019). Existential Rootedness: Aesthetic Ecology of Communication Ethics. Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Uhrenfeldt, L., Sørensen, E. E., Bahnsen, I. B., & Pedersen, P. U. (2018). The centrality of the nurse–patientrelationship: A Scandinavian perspective. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27, 3197–3204. https://doi. org/10.1111/jocn.14381 

Van der Meide, H., Olthuis, G., & Leget, C. (2015). Why frailty needs vulnerability: A care ethical perspective on hospital care for older patients. Nursing Ethics, 22(8), 860-869.

Van Wijngaarden, E., Leget, C., & Goossensen, A. (2015). Ready to give up on life: The lived experience ofelderly people who feel life is completed and no longer worth living. Social Science & Medicine,138, 257-264.

Verducci, D. & Kule, M. (eds.)(2022). The Development of Eco- Phenomenology as An Interpretative Paradigm of The Living World. Springer.

Zeiler, Kristin. 2014. ‘A Philosophical Defense of the Idea that We Can Hold Each Other in Personhood: Intercorporeal Personhood in Dementia Care’, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17: 131–41.