What is illness? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there be well-being within illness? Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own illness with reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher.
What is illness? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there be well-being within illness? Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own illness with reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher.
Havi Carel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK. She is author of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (2006), Phenomenology of Illness (2016), and co-editor of Health, Illness and Disease (2012).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface to the third edition. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The body in illness. 2. The social world of illness. 3. Illness as dis-ability and health within illness. 4. Fearing death. 5. Sewn open. 6. Living in the present. LAM: facts and figures. References. Index.
Preface to the third edition. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The body in illness. 2. The social world of illness. 3. Illness as dis-ability and health within illness. 4. Fearing death. 5. Sewn open. 6. Living in the present. LAM: facts and figures. References. Index.
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