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Illness (The Art of Living Series)

  • Author: Havi Carel
  • ISBN 10: 1844651525
  • ISBN 13: 9781844651528
  • Release: October 30, 2008
  • Format: Paperback (160 pages)
  • List Price: $18.95
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    List Price: $18.95

    Tags: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Epistemology,

    Book Description:
    What is illness? Is it a physiological malfunction or a social label? Is illness simply the absence of health? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there be wellbeing within illness? Havi Carel addresses these questions by weaving together two perspectives on illness: her personal account of her own illness, and the abstract, philosophical account. Carel shows how we can view illness not simply as a localised biological dysfunction, but as a transformation of one's body, one's social, psychological and physical worlds, and one's temporal existence. By focusing on the experience of illness as lived from within illness is reformulated as a life-changing event rather than a limited physiological problem. The body is no longer a lifeless container for the self, but the core of human subjectivity and embodied existence.

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