Phenomenology has been applied across music, medicine, and many other fields.

Evidence

16 Music and phenomenology: see, for example, Thomas Clifton, Music As Heard: a study in applied phenomenology (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1983). … 17 Sacks’ leg: Sacks, A Leg to Stand On, 91, 96. On medicine and phenomenology, see works including S. K. Toombs, The Meaning of Illness: a phenomenological account of the different perspectives of physician and patient (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992), and Richard Zaner, The Context of Self: a phenomenological inquiry using medicine as a clue (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1981). For many other applications of phenomenology, see Sebastian Luft and Søren Overgaard (eds), The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology (London & New York: Routledge, 2012). — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1182

Categorization

• XREF: Sacks’s own account of his injured leg and phenomenology connects to the reader’s earlier engagement with embodiment, senses, and the body in past books like One Square Inch of Silence and Deep Listening. — connects to: Phenomenology lets medicine treat symptoms as lived rather than merely physical — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 145
• QUESTION: Sacks’s leg as a phenomenological case — his lost sense of his own limb — is worth chasing as a concrete example of embodied consciousness.