The Life of Illness: One Woman's JourneySUNY Press, 1 jan 1993 - 203 pagina's The Life of Illness tells the story of one woman's courageous struggle with kidney failure, illness, and death. It is, however, a book about life, hope, faith, and the transformative power of caring for one another. Carol Olson writes "from the heart of experience," having shared a life of illness with two brothers and three sisters, whom she now survives. Her own life has been precariously maintained by kidney dialysis for more than twenty years. Inspired by the works of philosophers, literary authors, and poets, Olson turns to hermeneutical phenomenology to explore the meaning of the experience of illness. In response to the question, "How can we live with illness?" the author engages in reflective conversations. As patient, she dialogues with literary works of art dealing with illness, developing relationships between texts and others who experience illness from various points of view: the chaplain, the doctor, the nurse, and the parent. Olson makes us aware of the significance of others in their various caring relations with the person of illness. The clarity and deeply compelling nature of her writing makes this book accessible to all whose lives have been touched by these experiences. The experience of illness and death we all face impels us to wonder with her about the nature of wholeness and health. Ultimately we ask: "What is life?" |
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Inhoudsopgave
Epigraph for Joy | 7 |
The Question of Understanding | 65 |
Searches for the Other | 93 |
One for the Other | 129 |
One by the Other | 143 |
One without the Other | 153 |
The Homecoming | 167 |
Notes | 179 |
Bibliography | 193 |
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Abraham Arthur artificial kidney machine asked became become began blood transfusions body bone doctor calcium Carol child Crystal death dialogue dialysis disease Doctor Rieux Duquesne University Duquesne University Press dying Emmanuel Levinas experience of illness expression faith feel Florence Nightingale friends Gabriel Marcel Gadamer give grief heal heart of pity Heidegger hemodialysis hemoglobin Heraclitus hope hospital human Ivan Ilyitch Ivan's journey Joy's kidney failure kidney patients kidney unit Kierkegaard Levinas light live logos Martin Heidegger meaning Merleau-Ponty morning night Norman Cousins nurse pain person Phenomenology plague poem possibility remember renal research question response says the chaplain self-pity shared silence skeletal survey smile speak suffering surgery thematic themes Theorizing things thought told trans transplant treatment truth understand University of Alberta Victor Frankl vitamin vitamin D W. H. Auden walk words York
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