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
... Research Objects / 33 Blood Tests / 33 Surgeries 37 Pure Water / 39 - M - - X - rays / 36 Common Sense Research / 38 ... Question of Technology / 59 Children of Technology / 59 Dialysis 60 The Meaning of Speaking and Listening / 62 ~ - ...
... Research Objects / 33 Blood Tests / 33 Surgeries 37 Pure Water / 39 - M - - X - rays / 36 Common Sense Research / 38 ... Question of Technology / 59 Children of Technology / 59 Dialysis 60 The Meaning of Speaking and Listening / 62 ~ - ...
Pagina x
... Research Question / 169 Researching Phenomenological Texts / 171 Yields of the Literary Texts / 172 Yields of the Writing / 173 Friendship / 176 Notes / 179 Bibliography / 193 INTRODUCTORY ESSAY : OTHERS The reader of Carol Olson's ...
... Research Question / 169 Researching Phenomenological Texts / 171 Yields of the Literary Texts / 172 Yields of the Writing / 173 Friendship / 176 Notes / 179 Bibliography / 193 INTRODUCTORY ESSAY : OTHERS The reader of Carol Olson's ...
Pagina xviii
... Research Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Wisconsin - Madison , and his ... question dwells in xviii Acknowledgments.
... Research Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Wisconsin - Madison , and his ... question dwells in xviii Acknowledgments.
Pagina 4
... question within us : " What is life that technology is not sufficient for life ? " This question turns us to what is beyond us , to God , and the search for what is good in the re - search of daily life . How could I research the life ...
... question within us : " What is life that technology is not sufficient for life ? " This question turns us to what is beyond us , to God , and the search for what is good in the re - search of daily life . How could I research the life ...
Pagina 5
... question , " How ought we to live ? " but themes reveal possibilities for living in this question until the themes themselves become open to deeper understanding . The deepest understanding this research has yielded is a quiet saying ...
... question , " How ought we to live ? " but themes reveal possibilities for living in this question until the themes themselves become open to deeper understanding . The deepest understanding this research has yielded is a quiet saying ...
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