Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture

The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety.

1. The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture.- 2. Confronting the Cadaver: The Denial of Death in Modern Medicine.- 3. Time and Efficiency in the Age of Calculative Rationality: A Metabletic Entry Point.- 4. The Zombie Body of Linear Perspective Vision.- 5. Applications of Terror Management Theory.- 6. Terror Management in Medical Culture.- 7. Dehumanization in Modern Medicine and Science.- 8. Objectification of the Body as a Terror Management Defense.- 9. The Objectification of Women and Nature.- 10. The Role of the Medical Cadaver in the Genesis of Enlightenment-Era Science and Technology.- 11. A Theological Context.- 12. The Changing Nature of the Cadaver.- 13. Anesthetic Culture.- 14. Psychiatry’s Collusion with Anesthetic Culture.- 15. Mindfulness—the Way of the Heart.