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 viii
... Pain to Despair / 107 The needy master / 107 ~ - Moments to Memories / 106 Dis - ease to Disease / 107 Help to Hope / 107 Hope is a promise of help / 108 -- Judgment to Mercy / 108 All Moments to the Last Moment / 108 Chapter 8. Pauline ...
... Pain to Despair / 107 The needy master / 107 ~ - Moments to Memories / 106 Dis - ease to Disease / 107 Help to Hope / 107 Hope is a promise of help / 108 -- Judgment to Mercy / 108 All Moments to the Last Moment / 108 Chapter 8. Pauline ...
Pagina ix
... Pain of Illness / 121 - - - The pain of illness is loss / 121 The pain of illness is bearing the grief as hope / 122 We Find Refuge in Blessings / 122 Each of Our Days is an Invitation to Live as though it were our Dying Day / 123 ...
... Pain of Illness / 121 - - - The pain of illness is loss / 121 The pain of illness is bearing the grief as hope / 122 We Find Refuge in Blessings / 122 Each of Our Days is an Invitation to Live as though it were our Dying Day / 123 ...
Pagina x
... Pain in the Light of Hope / 150 Chapter 11. Lord Tennyson : One without the Other / 153 On " In Memoriam , " : The Mother Speaks / 153 To Speak About Grief / 153 Dark House / 155 The Paradox of Calm / 156 - - - - Sharing a Life / 157 ...
... Pain in the Light of Hope / 150 Chapter 11. Lord Tennyson : One without the Other / 153 On " In Memoriam , " : The Mother Speaks / 153 To Speak About Grief / 153 Dark House / 155 The Paradox of Calm / 156 - - - - Sharing a Life / 157 ...
Pagina xi
... pain that Joy experiences as a result of her illness and of the seemingly unbridgable abyss , between the self and the others . On the one hand the illness itself is this abyss , this chasm that separates the ill person from the others ...
... pain that Joy experiences as a result of her illness and of the seemingly unbridgable abyss , between the self and the others . On the one hand the illness itself is this abyss , this chasm that separates the ill person from the others ...
Pagina 4
... pain and abounds in hope . And so technology is mute about the pain it requires of us , the hope it inspires in us , the life it gives us . The silence of technology becomes a question within us : " What is life that technology is not ...
... pain and abounds in hope . And so technology is mute about the pain it requires of us , the hope it inspires in us , the life it gives us . The silence of technology becomes a question within us : " What is life that technology is not ...
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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