Most discussions of health care center on medical advances, cost, and the roles of insurers and government agencies. With "The Grey Zoneof Health and Illness," Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care alike. Drawing on a range of thinkers, Blum explains how our current understanding of health care tends to posit it as a sort of state of permanent emergency, like the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. To move beyond that, he argues, will require a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A...
Most discussions of health care center on medical advances, cost, and the roles of insurers and government agencies. With "The Grey Zoneof Health a...
The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one s feelings of well-being and experience in a range of areas; coming out often as malaise, depression, and anger in much conduct. If one accepts the cliche that life is preparation for death, we must accept that the lived experience of the dying body is not highlighted merely in obvious cases of deterioration such as in the ageing or diseased body, but in everyday life as a normal phenomenon.
This book proposes that...
The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically s...