AHO, K. (2019). Notes from a heart attack. A phenomenology of an altered body. In: E. DAHL, C. FALKE, T.E. ERIKSEN (eds.), Phenomenology of the broken body, Routledge, London/New York, pp. 188-201.

ARDIEL, E.L., RANKIN, C.H. (2010). The importance of touch in development. In: «Paediatrics & Child Health», vol. XV, n. 3, pp. 153-156.

BURY, M. (1982). Chronic illness as biographical disruption. In: «Sociology of Health and Illness», vol. IV, n. 2, pp. 167-182.

BUTLER, R.N. (1974). Successful aging and the role of the life review. In: «Journal of the American Geriatrics Society», vol. XXII, n. 12, pp. 29-535.

CAREL, H. (2014). Illness: The cry of the flesh, Routledge, London/New York.

DESCARTES, R. (2017). Meditation on first philosophy. With selections of the objections and relies, translated by J. COTTINGHAM, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (Original edition: Meditationes de prima philosophia, Soly, Paris 1641).

EGNEW, T.R.A. (2018). Narrative approach to healing chronic illness. In: «Annals of Family Medicine», vol. XVI, n. 2, pp. 160-165.

FOUCAULT, M. (1979) Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison, translated by A. SHERIDAN, Vintage Books, New York (Original edition: Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison, Gallimard, Paris 1975).

HAWKINS, A.H. (1999). Reconstructing illness: Studies in pathography, Purdue University Press, West Lafa-yette (IN).

KABAT-ZINN, J. (2013). Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness, Bantam, New York.

LEDER, D. (1990). The absent body, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

LEDER, D. (2016). The distressed body: Rethinking illness, imprisonment, and healing, University of Chi-cago Press, Chicago.

LEDER, D. (2024). The healing body: Creative responses to illness, aging, and affliction, Northwestern University Press, Evanston (IL).

LEDER, D., JACOBSON, K. (2014). The experience of health and illness. In: B. JENNINGS (ed.), The ency-clopedia of bioethics, vol. III, pp. 1434-1443, 4th edition.

MELZACK, R., KATZ, J. (2004). The gate control theory: Reaching for the brain. In: T. HADJISTAVROPOULOS, K.D. CRAIG (eds.), Pain: Psychological perspectives, Lawrence Herlbaum, Mahwah (NJ), pp. 13-34.

MELZACK, R., WALL, P.D. (1996). The challenge of pain, Penguin, London.

MERLEAU-PONTY, M. (2012). Phenomenology of perception, translated by D.A. LANDES, Routledge, London (Original edition: Phénoménologie de la perception, Gallimard, Paris 1945).

MINKOWSKI, E. (1970). Lived time: Phenomenological and psychopathological studies, translated by N. METZEL, Northwestern University Press, Evanston (IL) (Original edition: Le temps vécu: etude phénoménologiques et psychopathologiques, Delachaux & Niestlé, Paris 1933).

NANCY, J.-L. (2002). L’intrus, translated by S. HANSON. In: «New Centennial Review», vol. II, n. 3, pp. 1-14.

NIETZSCHE, F. (1954). Thus spoke Zarathustra. In: W. KAUFMAN (ed.), The portable Nietzsche, Viking, New York, pp. 103-439 (Original edition: Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für alle und keine, Schmeit-zner, Chemnitz 1889).

SLATMAN, J. (2014). My strange body: Philosophical reflections on identity and medical interventions, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.

SVENAEUS, F. (2011). Illness as unhomelike being-in-the-world: Heidegger and the phenomenology of medicine. In: «Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy», vol. XIV, n. 3, pp. 333-343.

SVENAEUS, F. (2015) The phenomenology of chronic pain: Embodiment and alienation. In: «Continental Phi-losophy Review», vol. XLVIII, n. 2, pp. 107-122.

TAYLOR, J.B. (2009). My stroke of insight: A brain scientist’s personal journey, Penguin, New York.

VAN DEN BERG, J.H. (1966). The psychology of the sickbed, Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh (PA).

WHITE, K., ISSAC, M.S.M., KAMOUN, C., LEYGUES, J., COHN, S. (2018). The THRIVE model: A framework and review of internal and external predictors of coping with chronic illness. In: «Health Psychology Open», vol. V, n. 2, published online August 21 – doi: 10.1177/2055102918793552.