Adamson The aesthetic experience of dying

The dance to death
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-79716-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of Adamson’s partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery.

Drawing on German Idealism and Jane’s own research in the area, The Aesthetic Experience of Dying looks at the notion of life as binary synthesis, or return enhanced, as a way of coming to understand death. Binary synthesis describes the interplay between dynamically opposing pairs of concepts – such as life and death – resulting in an enhanced version of one of them to move forward from in a new cycle of the process. Yet what relevance does this elegant word game have to the shocking diagnosis of serious illness? Struggling to balance reason with sense, thought with feeling, this book examines the experience of caring for someone from diagnosis to death and is illustrated with examples of the return enhanced. The concluding chapter outlines how the tension of Jane’s dying has been resolved as the rhythmic patterns of the lifeworld have been understood through the process of reflecting on the experience.

This creative and insightful book will appeal to those interested in the medical humanities. It will also be an important reference for practising and student health professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adamson, Veronica M. F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Pflegeforschung, Pflegemanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The aesthetic experience of dying: an introduction

2. Invitation to the dance: diagnosis

3. Days for dancing: living with the disease

4. The last waltz: parting

5. The return enhanced: a conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Veronica Adamson is a Research Fellow in the School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.