Dragojlovic / Broom Bodies and Suffering

Emotions and Relations of Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-50437-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 172 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities

This book is a critical response to a range of problems – some theoretical, others empirical - that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering. The book explores how moral and ethical questions of personal suffering are experienced, contested, negotiated and institutionalized. The book investigates the moral labour and significance invested in actions to care for others, or in failing to do so. It also explores circumstances – personal, political and social – under which that which is perceived as non-moral becomes moral.



Drawing on case studies and empirical research, Bodies and Suffering examines the idea of the suffering body across different cultures and contexts and the experience and treatment of these suffering bodies. The book draws on theories of affect, embodiment, the phenomenology of illness, and moralities of care, to produce a nuanced understanding of suffering as being located across the assumed borders of time, space, bodies, persons, and things.



Suitable for bioethicists, medical anthropologists, health sociologists, and body studies scholars, Bodies and Suffering will also be of use on health science courses as essential reading on suffering bodies, mental health and morality and ethics issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dragojlovic, Ana

Broom, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Bodies and Suffering: Affect, Emotions and Relations of Care

Part I: Suffering, Bodies and Disease

Chapter One: Who’s suffering? Professional care and private suffering

Chapter Two: A labour of love? Suffering in relation in informal care for the dying

Part II: Suffering, the Lived Body and Mobility

Chapter Three: The Practice of Secrecy as a Moral Economy of Care: Affect, Fragility and Intergenerational Suffering

Chapter Four: Racialisation and Othering as Everyday Harm: Embodiment, Adoption, Affect

Part III: Sites of Care, Self-help and Coping with Suffering

Chapter Five: Practice of Radical Affectivity: Evoking Suffering as a Healing Modality

Chapter Six: Suffering survivorship: Dilemmas of survival, wilful subjects, and the moral economy of dying

Conclusion: Suffering and Caring Assemblages

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Dragojlovic is a Research Fellow in Anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland and a Research Associate in Anthropology (CAP) at the Australian National University.

Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, and in the Practical Justice Initiative, UNSW Australia