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The healing body : creative responses to illness, aging, and affliction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leder, Drew (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2024]
Series:Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
Subjects:
Human body (Philosophy)
Medicine > Philosophy.
Aging > Philosophy.
Aging > Psychological aspects.
Diseases > Psychological aspects.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
Médecine > Philosophie.
Vieillissement > Philosophie.
Vieillissement > Aspect psychologique.
Aging > Philosophy
Aging > Psychological aspects
Medicine > Philosophy
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A Musical Overture: Re-possibilizing Life after Illness and Incapacity
  • Twenty Healing Strategies
  • Escaping and Embracing the Body
  • Chronic Healing: Repairing Time
  • Objectification and Communion
  • Receiving and Giving
  • The Marginalized Body
  • Embodied Injustice: Incarceration and/as Illness
  • Elder Wisdom: Re-possibilizing Later Life
  • The Inside-Out Body
  • Inside Insights and the "Inferior Interior"
  • Breath as the Hinge of Dis-ease and Healing
  • The Transparent Body.