The Dying Body as a Lived Experience (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Release date:	May 2019
First published:	2017
Authors:	Alan Blum
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	214
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-22404-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
LSN:	0-367-22404-6
Barcode:	9780367224042

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