The Life of Illness: One Woman's JourneyState University of New York Press, 8 dec. 1992 - 203 pagini 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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Pagina vii
... Arthur and I Respond to Dialysis 1975 47 Machine Progress / 47 ~ Blood / 49 - Blood Water / 50 ~ New Bone , New Life / 52 Protection from Medicine / 54 Patient Education for Individual Care / 55 Informed Consent for Individual Care / 56 ...
... Arthur and I Respond to Dialysis 1975 47 Machine Progress / 47 ~ Blood / 49 - Blood Water / 50 ~ New Bone , New Life / 52 Protection from Medicine / 54 Patient Education for Individual Care / 55 Informed Consent for Individual Care / 56 ...
Pagina xii
... us to question of what is the meaning of illness and health in our lives . This is also the question that is the thrust in Carol Olson's The Life of Illness . Having known Carol , Joy , Arthur , and their xii Introductory Essay : Others.
... us to question of what is the meaning of illness and health in our lives . This is also the question that is the thrust in Carol Olson's The Life of Illness . Having known Carol , Joy , Arthur , and their xii Introductory Essay : Others.
Pagina xiii
One Woman's Journey Carol T. Olson. Having known Carol , Joy , Arthur , and their truly heroic mother I never failed to experience a certain " coming to my senses " when I met Joy in the hallways of the university or Arthur in their ...
One Woman's Journey Carol T. Olson. Having known Carol , Joy , Arthur , and their truly heroic mother I never failed to experience a certain " coming to my senses " when I met Joy in the hallways of the university or Arthur in their ...
Pagina 1
... Arthur experienced the sudden collapse of his kidneys with Hong Kong flu and began dialysis on the artifical kidney machine . Joy and I started dialysis two years later . Our years on dialysis together ended when Joy and Arthur died in ...
... Arthur experienced the sudden collapse of his kidneys with Hong Kong flu and began dialysis on the artifical kidney machine . Joy and I started dialysis two years later . Our years on dialysis together ended when Joy and Arthur died in ...
Pagina 2
... Arthur's machine for dialysis while Arthur was suffering from a debilitating bone disease and loss of eyesight . As we needed such physical support , so we needed the spiritual support of his uncompromising faith : he trusted God to ...
... Arthur's machine for dialysis while Arthur was suffering from a debilitating bone disease and loss of eyesight . As we needed such physical support , so we needed the spiritual support of his uncompromising faith : he trusted God to ...
Cuprins
Epigraph for Joy | 7 |
Heartbeat Wrapped With Plastic | 23 |
M | 73 |
Searches for the Other | 93 |
One with the Other | 111 |
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 biopsy bone doctor calcium Carol child Crystal death dialogue dialysis disease Doctor Rieux dying Emmanuel Levinas example 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 knew Levinas light live logos Marcel Martin Heidegger meaning Merleau-Ponty morning night Norman Cousins nurse Olson pain Pauline person Phenomenology plague poem possibility Press remember renal research question response self-pity shared silence skeletal survey smile speak suffering surgery thematic themes theorist Theorizing things told trans transplant treatment truth understand University of Alberta Victor Frankl vitamin vitamin D W. H. Auden walk words York