Abstrakt
The paper deals with the lived everyday practice of patients with epileptic seizures and the types of knowledge they are working with in relation to seizures. It argues that cooperation between the multiple modes of knowledge production shapes the treatment of patients experiencing epileptic seizures.
The specificity of each particular experience with the epileptic seizures creates conditions in which the multiple biomedical knowledge need to significantly work with the patient's embodied knowledge. Therefore, the patients are encouraged by the experts to work with their bodies and develop personal embodied knowledge about the form of their seizures (such as auras, triggers, forms and process of seizures).
The paper discusses ways in which the (multiple) biomedical knowledge (lacking other forms of cognition) use the embodiment of patients, how the phenomenological discourse of embodied knowledge enters the biomedical context and how the patients themselves deal with this situation in their daily life practices. This contribution represents case of epileptic seizures' treatment as relatively successful example of bringing patient's knowledge to his/herself health care.