The dying body as a lived experience

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The dying body as a lived experience

Alan Blum

(Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness)

Routledge, 2019, c2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published 2017 by Routledge. First issued in paperback 2019"--T.p. verso

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内容説明

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 cliche 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.

目次

Prologue: The Dying Body as Lived Experience Introduction: Death, Mystery, Life 1. Desperation as Grey Zone 2. Fear and Trembling 3. The Collective Fantasizes Death: The Imaginary at the End of its Tether 4. Fear and Likely Stories 5. Death, Happiness and the Meaning of Life: The View from Sociology 6. Ending and Beginning Part 2: Dementia and the Look of Madness: Aging, Raging and the Poetics of Passing On 7. The Enigma of the Brain and its Place as Cause, Character, and Pretext in the Imaginary of Dementia 8. The Writing Machine: Public Health, Dementia and the Spell of the Brain as an Object of Social Enthusiasm 9. Plague Strikes the Family 10. The Cliche of Depression 11. Tragedy and Comedy 12. The Travesty of End of Life

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