명상도서관

명상도서관

The medicalized body and anesthetic culture : the cadaver, the memorial body, and the recovery of lived experience 자세히보기
  • 자료유형단행본
  • 저자명Robbins, Brent Dean
  • 학회/출판사/기관명
  • 출판년도2018
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기
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  • 소개/요약This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety. Robbins draws from research on the phenomenology of the body, the history of cadaver dissection, and empirical research in terror management theory to highlight how medical culture operates as an agent which promotes anesthetic consciousness as a habit of perception. In short, modern medicine’s comportment toward the cadaver promotes the suppression of the memory of the person who donated their body. This suppression of the memorial body comes at the price of concealing the lived, experiential body of patients in medical practice. Robbins argues that this style of coping has influenced Western culture and has helped to foster maladaptive patterns of perception associated with experiential avoidance, diminished empathy, death denial, and the dysregulation of emotion.