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Dying Body as a Lived Experience

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvAlan Blum,Canada) Blum, Alan (York University

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The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one’s feelings of well-being and experience in a range of areas; coming out often as malaise, depression, and anger in much conduct. If one accepts the cliché that life is preparation for death, we must accept that the lived experience of the dying body is not highlighted merely in obvious cases of deterioration such as in the ageing or diseased body, but in everyday life as a normal phenomenon. This book proposes that sensitivity to this dimension can empower us to develop creative relationships to the vulnerability of others and to ourselves as well. Part One lays the groundwork for a study of the ways the aura and fear of death recurs as a constant premonition in life and how people try to deal with this uneasiness. Part Two then goes on to apply this focus to particular concerns and problems such as dementia, depression, aging, retirement, and a range of anxieties, frustrations and aggressions.The Dying Body as Lived Experience will be of interest to a wide interdisciplinary audience in the health sciences, in the sociology of health and illness, philosophy, bioethics and in the expanding field of medical humanities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-09-06
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Antal sidor226
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138655157

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Prologue: The Dying Body as Lived ExperienceIntroduction: Death, Mystery, Life1. Desperation as Grey Zone2. Fear and Trembling3. The Collective Fantasizes Death: The Imaginary at the End of its Tether4. Fear and Likely Stories5. Death, Happiness and the Meaning of Life: The View from Sociology6. Ending and BeginningPart 2: Dementia and the Look of Madness: Aging, Raging and the Poetics of Passing On7. The Enigma of the Brain and its Place as Cause, Character, and Pretext in the Imaginary of Dementia8. The Writing Machine: Public Health, Dementia and the Spell of the Brain as an Object of Social Enthusiasm9. Plague Strikes the Family10. The Cliche of Depression11. Tragedy and Comedy12. The Travesty of End of Life