Havi Carel

Illness (eBook, PDF)

The Cry of the Flesh

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? And can there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own serious illness with insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher. Carel's fresh approach to illness raises some uncomfortable questions about how we all - whether healthcare professionals or not - view the ill and challenges us to become more thoughtful. 'Illness' unravels the tension between the universality of illness and its intensely private, often lonely, nature. It offers a new way of looking at a matter that affects every one of us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315487403
• Artikelnr.: 48799833

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.