The distressed body : rethinking illness, imprisonment, and healing / Drew Leder.

Author
Leder, Drew [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Description
287 pages ; 23 cm

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    "Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditions experienced by prisoners in our age of mass incarceration, and by animals trapped in our factory farms. Drew Leder offers bold new ways to rethink how we create and treat distress, clearing the way for more humane social practices. Leder draws on literary examples, clinical and philosophical sources, his medical training, and his own struggle with chronic pain. He levies a challenge to the capitalist and Cartesian models that rule modern medicine. Similarly, he looks at the root paradigms of our penitentiary and factory farm systems and the way these produce distressed bodies, asking how such institutions can be reformed."--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-278) and index.
    Contents
    • Illness and treatment: phenomenological investigations
    • Rethinking illness: Philoctetes' exile
    • Rethinking pain: the paradoxical problem
    • Rethinking touch: how then does it heal? --; Rethinking pills: fantasies, realities, possibilities
    • Rethinking clinical practice: toward a more materialistic medicine
    • Medicine and bioethics: hermeneutical reflections
    • Rethinking diagnosis: the many texts of medicine
    • Rethinking bioethics: questioning our answers, and our questions
    • Rethinking organ transplants: whose body, what body?
    • Discarded and recovered bodies: animals and prisoners. Rethinking factory farms: Old McDonald's had a what?
    • Rethinking imprisonment: the life-world of the incarcerated
    • Rethinking prisons: the enlightened (and endarkened) prison
    • Rethinking prisoners and animals: "they're animals" and their animals
    • Rethinking humans and/as animals: the art of shape-shifting.
    ISBN
    • 9780226396071 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    • 022639607X ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    • 9780226396101 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    • 022639610X ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2015051193
    OCLC
    934795263
    Other standard number
    • 40027046263
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