Blunt traumas : negotiating suffering and death / edited by Nate Hinerman and Holly Lynn Baumgartner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baumgartner, Holly Lynn, editor.

Hinerman, Nate, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2016]

Language Note:

Includes versions of Hölderlin's poem in English and French by several modern translators.

Summary:

From the ridicule of Emo culture on YouTube to the minute joys of the Happy Hour Trolley in an Australian palliative care setting, responses to suffering and death range from avoidance to eradication. Blunt Traumas thoughtfully engages these topics with compassion and brutal honesty. Contributors across the spectrum of professions using a variety of methodologies, including case studies, fieldwork, systematic philosophy, and historical and textual analysis all respond to the orienting question: ‘How does culture impact, co-create, and/or produce suffering?’ Their inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives are divided into two sections. The first, ‘Public Perceptions of Death, Dying, and Suffering’ closely examines human interactions with and performance of technologies of suffering from wireless to religious, dead baby bloggers to wounded warriors. The second half of the book focuses on the ‘The Sufferer’s Right to Choose’, whether that concerns end-of-life decisions, medical technologies, or narratives of self. Together, these chapters provide greater intelligibility on and provocative discussions about the oft ignored or ‘buried’ discourses of suffering and dying.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Nate Hinerman and Holly Lynn Baumgartner

Another Narrative of Death: The Outrage and Kurosawa’s Rashomon / Shunichi Ueno

Death in Public: Text Analysis of a Newspaper Debate / Lisbeth Thoresen

Ghostbook: On the Internet, No One Really Dies / Trace Norris

Ridiculing Suffering on YouTube: Digital Parodies of Emo Style / Anna Johansson and Hans T. Sternudd

Case Studies of Prior Self-Knowledge and Synchronistic Signs of Approaching Death / Huai Bao

Schopenhauer and Modernity: Disclosing Modern Malaise / Jordi Cabos

Dead Baby Bloggers: Making Sense of Death through Online Grieving / Jennifer Cypher

What Good Is Religious Belief for Fear of Death and Grief? / David B. Feldman , Ian C. Fischer and Robert A. Gressis

The Unhealed Wounds of War: Social Sources of Suffering and War-Related Traumatic Experiences / Elizabeth Gill

Clare, Agnes and Agency in Suffering / Holly Lynn Baumgartner

Autonomy, a Contested Concept: A Systematic Review of the Meaning of ‘Autonomy’ in Qualitative Research on End-of-Life Decisions / Manya Hendriks and Robert Pool

On Becoming Osteoporotic: The Fragility of Identity Fractured Bones and Shattered Identities / Richard B. Hovey

Another Way to Argue for the Killing/Letting Die Distinction / Francesca Marin

Rational Religious Suicide / Lloyd Steffen

When the Happy Hour Trolley Enters: Cloaking Death through Performance in Palliative Care / Holi Birman

Between Denial and Acceptance: Paul Tillich’s Reflection on Suffering and Finitude / Andrzej Dańczak

In the Shadow of the Trenches or History Unmade: Doris Lessing’s Alfred and Emily (2008) / Luísa Maria Flora

Young People: Voice, Loss Narratives, and the Development of Emotional Literacies / Sukhbinder Hamilton.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-469-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848884694 DOI