Ana Dragojlovic, Alex Broom

Bodies and Suffering

Emotions and Relations of Care

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a critical response to a range of problems, some theoretical, others empirical, that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering. The book explores how moral and ethical questions of personal suffering are experienced, contested, negotiated and institutionalized. Suitable for bioethicists and health sociologists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781138885264
• ISBN-10: 1138885266
• Artikelnr.: 43673408

Autorenporträt

Ana Dragojlovic is a Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, and in the Practical Justice Initiative, UNSW Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Suffering, Bodies and Disease 1. Suffering,
Recognition and Chronic Pain 2. Caring and Refractory Suffering Part 2:
Suffering, Mental Illness and Migration 3. Intergenerational Trauma and
Emotional Suffering 4. Transnational Adult Adoptees and Emotional Distress
Part 3: Sites of Care, Self-help and Coping with Suffering 5. Reframing
Terminality and Suffering 6. Family Constellation Therapy and
Intergenerational Trauma 7. Conclusion