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The healing body : creative responses to illness, aging, and affliction / Drew Leder.
Van Pelt Library B105.B64 L4334 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leder, Drew, author.
- Series:
- Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy
- Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body (Philosophy).
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Aging--Philosophy.
- Aging.
- Aging--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Philosopher and physician Drew Leder shows how a phenomenology of lived embodiment reveals a series of healing strategies available in the face of the bodily breakdowns and challenges that are a part of the human condition"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780810146372
- 0810146371
- 9780810146389
- 081014638X
- OCLC:
- 1377284224
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