Havi Carel

Illness

The Cry of the Flesh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781138704275
• ISBN-10: 113870427X
• Artikelnr.: 52915417

Autorenporträt

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.