The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience /

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...

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Main Author:	Robbins, Brent Dean (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:	Critical psychology. Emotions. Psychology. Social medicine.
ISBN:	9781349953561
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