The Ethics of Relating to Patients as Embodied Others

The phenomenology of embodied others is a relatively unexplored research area, which is relevant to the ethics of both personal and professional relationships. Although the experience of embodiment is a central theme in phenomenological philosophy, previous work in this area has been mostly focused on the experience of the embodied self. The purpose of the present chapter is to widen the embodiment perspective to the experience of embodied others, to embodied relationality, and to the bioethics of relating to patients seen as embodied others.