The Meaning of Illness: A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient (Philosophy and Medicine, 42)

This work provides a phenomenological account of the experience of illness and the manner in which meaning is constituted by the patient and the physician. The author provides a detailed account of the way in which illness and body are apprehended differently by doctor and patient. This title has been awarded the first Edwin Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology.

Toombs, S. Kay

Science & Math

Springer

From the moment of birth, children in this society grow up in a home, social and educational environment permeated by digital technology. Ninety-five percent of teens are online, and an increasing number of infants under one year old now regularly use tablets and other mobile devices. What will this new technology-laden environment mean for our culture?Citing a wide variety of neurological, sociological and psychological research studies, this book considers the effects of this unprecedented change on the lives of the young, as well as detailing how these technologies are changing the way we think and radically altering our relationship with nature, with reality and with each other.

Changing Our Minds: How Digital Technology Affects Our Children and Disconnects Us from Reality and from Each Other

Parenting & Relationships

Colloquium Press

We live at a time when more and more people face the challenges of chronic illness and aging, and when the notion of "dignity" is increasingly cited in the debate regarding how best to care for those who face these challenges. This book considers two radically different perspectives on dignity: the one grounded in the prevailing cultural view that emphasizes individual autonomy, a perspective that inevitably increases the sick person's experience of loss of dignity and that is causing a fundamental shift in attitudes towards the care of the sick and dying; the other grounded in the values of authentic Christian community, a context that nurtures an ethic of love and care that transforms the meaning of illness and suffering and affords dignity to all.

How Then Should We Die?: Two Opposing Responses to the Challenges of Suffering and Death

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The Meaning of Illness: A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient (Philosophy and Medicine, 42)

The Meaning of Illness: A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient (Philosophy and Medicine, 42)

Changing Our Minds: How Digital Technology Affects Our Children and Disconnects Us from Reality and from Each Other

How Then Should We Die?: Two Opposing Responses to the Challenges of Suffering and Death