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
... 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 Illness is Personal ...
... 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 Illness is Personal ...
Pagina xiii
... dialysis room or when I continue to visit Carol and her mother , Mrs. Olson . These encounters always leave me with the experience of having met the other in myself and myself in the other . What is this meaning of the other ? How can ...
... dialysis room or when I continue to visit Carol and her mother , Mrs. Olson . These encounters always leave me with the experience of having met the other in myself and myself in the other . What is this meaning of the other ? How can ...
Pagina xvii
... dialysis life and in the research writing and reading of the manuscript are gratefully acknowledged . To Max and Judith van Manen , for their understanding friendship and help . I thank Max van Manen , Professor of Education at the ...
... dialysis life and in the research writing and reading of the manuscript are gratefully acknowledged . To Max and Judith van Manen , for their understanding friendship and help . I thank Max van Manen , Professor of Education at the ...
Pagina xviii
... dialysis . To all who have shared with me the friendship of kind and encouraging conversations and written communications , and to the readers of this book , for their openness to a new author . INTRODUCTION Illness in My Family The ...
... dialysis . To all who have shared with me the friendship of kind and encouraging conversations and written communications , and to the readers of this book , for their openness to a new author . INTRODUCTION Illness in My Family The ...
Pagina 1
... 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 1983. My father had died from a heart attack in 1979. Yet the meaning of their ...
... 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 1983. My father had died from a heart attack in 1979. Yet the meaning of their ...
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