The Life of Illness: One Woman's Journey

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State 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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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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Carol T. Olson holds a doctorate in education, and has taught elementary school and university level education in Canada.

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