
Mara GrinfeldeUniversity of Latvia | LU · Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
Mara Grinfelde
Doctor of Philosophy
Working on the phenomenologically grounded qualitative research on embodied aspects of vaccine hesitancy
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Introduction
I am interested in phenomenology of the body, nature of illness and the clinical encounter. Currently I am working on a Postdoctoral research project "Healing at a distance: phenomenological analysis of patient experience of clinical encounter in telemedicine", where I combine qualitative interview with insights from philosophical phenomenology.
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September 2014 - present
Education
September 2003 - June 2014
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Publications (15)
The global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has considerably accelerated the adoption of teleconsultation-a form of consultation between patient and health care professional that occurs via videoconferencing platforms. For this reason, it is important to investigate the way in which this form of interaction modifies the nature of the clinical encoun...
The global crisis of COVID-19 pandemic has considerably accelerated the use of teleconsultation (consultation between the patient and the doctor via video platforms). While it has some obvious benefits and drawbacks for both the patient and the doctor, it is important to consider—how teleconsultation impacts the quality of the patient-doctor relati...
A key topic within the field of the phenomenology of medicine has been the relationship between body and self in illness, including discussions about the otherness and mineness of the body. The aim of this article is to distinguish between different meanings of bodily otherness and mineness in illness with reference to the interpretation of the bod...
A large part of the contemporary phenomenology of medicine has been devoted to accounts of health and illness, arguing that they contribute to the improvement of health care. Less focus has been paid to the issue of prevention of disease and the associated difficulty of adhering to health-promoting behaviours, which is arguably of equal importance....
This article aimed to show the analytical potential of the life-world concept in the field of public health, which has not received much attention in the phenomenological literature. Specifically, based on phenomenologically grounded qualitative research, we aimed to show how the life-world concept, as worked out in Edmund Husserl’s philosophy, can...
This third volume is identical to the previous ones in its structural form, but conceptually different in its attempt to answer the fundamental question of philosophical anthropology: what is man? A question that is difficult to answer in general, and even more difficult to answer in a single volume – however, the authors dare to try, because their...
The collection of papers “Philosophical Anthropology II” is the second volume of papers in philosophical anthropology that contains papers written by members of the Department of Humanities at Rīga Stradiņš University. The collection consists of a foreword and ten chapters. Each chapter addresses its individual topic. The collection is oriented to...
The global crisis of Covid-19 pandemic has considerably accelerated the use of the teleconsultation (consultation between the patient and the doctor via video platforms). While it has some obvious benefits and drawbacks for both the patient and the doctor, it is important to understand if and how this new form of interaction modifies the clinical r...
The global crisis of Covid-19 pandemic has considerably accelerated the use of teleconsultation (consultation between the patient and the doctor via video platforms). While it is clear that video-based online clinical encounter has certainly taken away many possibilities for action accessible to both the patient and the doctor, such as, for example...
The global crisis of Covid-19 pandemic has considerably accelerated the use of teleconsultation (consultation between the patient and the doctor via video platforms). While it has some obvious benefits and drawbacks for both the patient and the doctor, it is important to consider how this new form of interaction impacts the nature of the clinical e...
A large part of contemporary phenomenology of medicine has been devoted to accounts of health and illness, arguing that they contribute to the improvement of healthcare. Less focus has been paid to the issue of prevention of disease and the associated difficulty of adhering to health-promoting behaviours, which is arguably of equal importance. This...
During the last few decades, many thinkers have advocated for the importance of the phenomenological approach in developing the understanding of the lived experience of illness. In their attempts, they have referred to ideas found in the history of phenomenology, most notably, in the works of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty...
In this paper I will try to systematically lay out and describe the multiple dimensions of the embodied experience of illness, which until recently has been the main focus within the field of the phenomenology of medicine. In order to do this, I will turn to analysis of the nature of embodiment in Husserl's phenomenology. I will argue that based on...
French thinker Jean-Luc Marion (Jean-Luc Marion) is probably best known for his hypothesis of the ‘saturated phenomenon’ (phénomène saturé) – a hypothesis of a phenomenon that is characterized through the excess of intuition over intention. Marion’s scholars have been mainly interested in this hypothesis of the saturated phenomenon without paying a...