Phenomenological analysis of patient-doctor relations in 20th century medical history

Although remarkable progress has been made in the 20th century with medical, scientific and technological developments, the medical worldview of the century requires that the disease be handled within certain paradigms, depending on the pathological and anatomical view of disease that prevents the full understanding of the disease experience. The approach of the doctor/physician to the disease by making the patient an object of theory within a theory has revealed some problems in the patient-physician relationship. In this framework, in this thesis, the phenomenological method, the applicability of this method in today's medicine and the dimensions of this applicability has been addressed for the analysis of the patient-physician relationship in the understanding of modern medicine, where philosophy is neglected by medicine. Phenomenology in medicine is an opportunity to reveal the difference between the way the patient experiences the disease and the physician's perspective on the patient in medical practice, as a possibility that allows the patient to describe/explain the disease experience (first person disease experience).Thus, despite all the positive developments in medical advances, phenomenology, which criticizes a medical approach in which the patient is reduced to his physical body and points to a pre-theoretical method and way of thinking, enables the discovery of medical phenomena (such as illness, health, etc.) from the perspective of those who experience it. In this thesis study, in which the materials related to philosophy in medicine are examined (document analysis) and the phenomenological method is used, it is concluded that phenomenology, which is a philosophical method to understand medical events and situations, is a great opportunity in medicine.