The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of the lifeworld perspective in reducing inequalities in health and we explain how the public health practitioner can use this perspective to address public health issues with individuals and groups. We offer ideas for public health actions that are based on and deal with the lifeworld context of individual people or families. Each of the dimens...

The article “Lifeworld and Mathematics” has been inspired by well-known scientists, from whom are listed here: Edmund Husserl, Jürgen Habermas, Reuben Hersh, Martin Heidegger, Hartmut von Hentig and Knut Radbruch. Basic for this article is Husserl’s phenomenological lifeworld analysis of the mathematized modern natural science. Habermas, in whose social theory the concept of lifeworld has also ...

Only a few studies explore the lifeworld of the spouses of persons affected by early-onset Alzheimer disease (AD). The aim of this study is to explore the lifeworld of spouses when their partners are diagnosed with AD, focusing on spouses' lived experience. The study employs an interpretative phenomenological framework. Ten in-depth interviews are performed. The results show that spouses' lifew...

Information systems development is human activity. It is the human aspects that are important in the success of ISD projects. That many are overlooked might help to explain why ISD projects fail. This paper argues that many methodologies and academic discussion of ISD take an approach that focuses on certain aspects while overlooking others, and that a more lifeworld-oriented approach would be ...

Much IS research brings a priori theoretical constructs to its domain of study, and this can generate distorted outcomes. To avoid this danger, IS research should be 'lifeworld-oriented'. Characteristics of the lifeworld are drawn from philosophy and applied to examples of IS research. Surprisingly, both positivist and critical research can be both theorizing and lifeworld-oriented, though in d...

Components of environmental management information systems like material flow analysis should be fundamental modules of enterprise resource planning systems. Though environmental management information systems are in development since more than 15 years, this is still not the case. This contribution tries to understand why this is the case. Starting point is another class of successful software...

We argue that the analysis of agent/environment interactions should be extended to include the conventions and invariants maintained by agents throughout their activity. We refer to this thicker notion of environment as a lifeworld and present a partial set of formal tools for describing structures of lifeworlds and the ways in which they computationally simplify activity. As one speci c exampl...

Questions on what it means to live and die well are raised and discussed in the hospice movement. A phenomenological lifeworld perspective may help professionals to be aware of meaningful and important dimensions in the lives of persons close to death. Lifeworld is not an abstract philosophical term, but rather the opposite. Lifeworld is about everyday, common life in all its aspects. In the wr...

ions through which we understand the person and his or her social moorings achieve integration only if we relocate that person within the more concrete setting of the pre-scientific lifeworld. The Lifeworld as the Source of Meaning for Medicine The processes of abstraction that constitute scientific thought presuppose experiences that are more concrete. This idea has been amply demonstrated by ...