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The loneliness of the dying

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  1. The Quest for New Rituals in Dying and Mourning: Changes in the We-I Balance.Cas Wouters - 2002 - Body and Society 8 (1):1-27.
    Rituals in dying and mourning have a social and a psychic aspect: they have the twin function of diminishing the danger of succumbing to intense emotions (fear, despair, powerlessness and grief) by evoking a feeling of solidarity, and of enhancing the sense of being connected to a larger community, on which basis these emotions are acknowledged as well as dimmed and kept under control. As the changes in mourning ritual of the last half of the 20th century demonstrate, the relation (...)
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  • Cyber(Body)Parts: Prosthetic Consciousness.Robert Rawdon Wilson - 1995 - Body and Society 1 (3-4):239-259.
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  • Aging and identity in dementia narratives.Joe Moran - 2001 - Cultural Values 5 (2):245-260.
    This article explores the way that senile dementia is represented in contemporary culture, with particular reference to texts which narrate the experience of caring for a parent or spouse with one form of the illness. These narratives raise problematic issues about the materiality of the body and its relation to individual identity, and the unstable relationship between memory and identity in postmodern culture, by drawing on the actual experience of bodily dependency and disorientating memory loss in dementia patients. These speculations (...)
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  • Elias and the counter-ego: personal recollections.Stephen Mennell - 2006 - History of the Human Sciences 19 (2):73-91.
    Norbert Elias (1897–1990) achieved international recognition as a major sociologist only towards the end of his long life. As a German Jewish refugee in England, he did not even gain a secure academic post (at the University of Leicester) until he was 57. Apart from his magnum opus, Über den Prozess der Zivilisation [The Civilizing Process], which was published obscurely in 1939, all his other books and most of his essays were published after his formal retirement. These personal recollections date (...)
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  • The Climbing Body, Nature and the Experience of Modernity.Neil Lewis - 2000 - Body and Society 6 (3-4):58-80.
    This article lays the ground for a sensuous appreciation of both the human body and the physical world. Drawing on the biographical account of the climber's embodied reflection of rock-climbing, the `climbing body' highlights our overwhelming tactile and kinaesthetic engagement with the phenomenal world. I Begin by emphasizing the need to consider the organic nature of human being, that we should understand how the awareness of death and our consequent sense of mutability provide a significant moment to remember the body. (...)
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  • ‘Mitori’ practices at a Japanese Hospital: Interactional analysis of the processes of death and dying in Japan.Michie Kawashima - 2019 - Discourse Studies 21 (2):159-179.
    Using 20 video recordings of Emergency Room treatment and over 5 years of Emergency Room fieldwork data, this study elucidates how interactional processes serve as resources for generating a cultural script of death in Japan called ‘Mitori’. A sudden death at a hospital, in which a patient is removed from their social network, is often considered as the opposite of a ‘good home death’. This study shows how hospital deaths in Japan are strongly interrelated with family participation. After showing the (...)
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  • On the contingency of death: a discourse-theoretical perspective on the construction of death.Nico Carpentier & Leen Van Brussel - 2012 - Critical Discourse Studies 9 (2):99-115.
    Death is frequently seen as the ultimate manifestation of materiality. Without denying this materiality, this article will investigate the discursive character of death and its contingent nature, through the lens of Laclau and Mouffe's [. Hegemony and social strategy: Towards a radical democratic politics. London: Verso] discourse theory. First, the core elements of the discourse of death, such as end/cessation/termination, negativity, irreversibility, inescapability, and undesirability, in combination with life as death's constitutive outside, will be analysed, showing the specificity of this (...)
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  • Death and the form of life.Finn Bowring - 2022 - European Journal of Social Theory 25 (3):349-365.
    This article explores the relevance of death to the value of life. After a preliminary discussion of the human experience of mortality, I consider Heidegger’s argument that death is a condition of authenticity, Sartre’s claim that death is an externality that is irrelevant because it cannot be lived and Simmel’s theory that death is a boundary that is transcended by life. While all theories have their merits, I suggest that Simmel’s approach, which articulates well with Levinas’s ethical critique of Heidegger, (...)
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  • An Assessment of the Position of Death in Modern Human Life.Murat Bahadir - 2019 - Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy:535-552.
    In spite of the fact that there is a common reality, people know very little about death. However, the person who sees the limited life as an obstacle in the way of encountering in life has always been in search of immortality. As a result of this quest, death has occupied different positions in human life. These positions can be grouped under three headings as tamed death, foreign death, and unspoken death. In this context, according to the last approach which (...)
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  • Why Do Care Workers Withdraw From Elderly Care? Researcher's Language as a Hermeneutical Key.Anne Liveng - 2012 - Journal of Research Practice 8 (2):Article - M4.
    Care workers frequently withdraw from elderly people in their care; this has resulted in a number of scandals in the media. Here I analyze an empirical scene observed at an old people’s home in Denmark, which contains behavioral patterns among the care workers which could be seen as withdrawal. At the same time it illustrates the care workers' commitment to the elderly. A paradoxical "empathy at a distance" is characteristic of the scene. When analyzing my written observations in an interpretation (...)
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  • 50 Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists.John Scott - 2007 - Routledge.
    Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline. Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century, such as Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Claude Le;vi-Strauss, each entry includes: · full cross-referencing · a further reading section · biographical data · key works and ideas · critical assessment. Clearly presented in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format, this accessible reference (...)
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