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Uses findings across fields of psychology and philosophy, representing a new wave of thinking called the "experiential revolution”
Integrates a wide variety of perspectives from across theoretical orientations and sub-fields of psychology
Synthesizes psychology existential and phenomenological philosophy, especially Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety. Robbins draws from research on the phenomenology of the body, the history of cadaver dissection, and empirical research in terror management theory to highlight how medical culture operates as an agent which promotes anesthetic consciousness as a habit of perception. In short, modern medicine’s comportment toward the cadaver promotes the suppression of the memory of the person who donated their body. This suppression of the memorial body comes at the price of concealing the lived, experiential body of patients in medical practice. Robbins argues that this style of coping has influenced Western culture and has helped to foster maladaptive patterns of perception associated with experiential avoidance, diminished empathy, death denial, and the dysregulation of emotion.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, USA
Brent Dean Robbins
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture
Book Subtitle: The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience
Authors: Brent Dean Robbins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95356-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95355-4Published: 04 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95930-3Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95356-1Published: 03 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 345
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Psychology, Emotion, History of Psychology, Medical Sociology