The Poetics Of Palliation

Author : Brittany Pladek
Publisher : Romantic Reconfigurations Stud
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786942210

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The Poetics of Palliation by Brittany Pladek Pdf

Can literature heal? The Poetics of Palliation argues that our answers to this question have origins in the Romantic period. In the past twenty years, health humanists and scholars of literature and medicine have drawn on Romantic ideas to argue that literature cures by making sufferers whole again. But this model oversimplifies how Romantic writers thought literature addressed suffering. Poetics documents how writers like William Wordsworth and Mary Shelley explored palliative forms of literary medicine: therapies that stressed literature's manifold relationship to pain and its power to sustain, comfort, and challenge even when cure was not possible. The book charts how Romantic writers developed these palliative poetics in conversation with their medical milieu. British medical ethics was first codified during the Romantic period. Its major writers, John Gregory and Thomas Percival, endorsed a palliative mandate to compensate for doctors' limited curative powers. Similarly, Romantic writers sought palliative approaches when their work failed to achieve starker curative goals. The startling diversity of their results illustrates how palliation offers a more comprehensive metric for literary therapy than the curative traditions we have inherited from Romanticism.

Author : Brittany Pladek
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786942838

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The Poetics of Palliation by Brittany Pladek Pdf

The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception remembers. By reading Romantic writers against Georgian medical ethics, Poetics recovers their models of literature as comfort and sustenance, challenging a health humanities tradition that sees literary therapy primarily as cure.

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509547258

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The Palliative Society by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a palliative politics that is incapable of implementing radical reforms that might be painful, so all we get is more of the same. Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, the palliative society is transformed into a society of survival. The virus enters the palliative zone of well-being and turns it into a quarantine zone in which life is increasingly focused on survival. And the more life becomes survival, the greater the fear of death: the pandemic makes death, which we had carefully repressed and set aside, visible again. Everywhere, the prolongation of life at any cost is the preeminent value, and we are prepared to sacrifice everything that makes life worth living for the sake of survival. This trenchant analysis of our contemporary societies by one of the most original cultural critics of our time will appeal to a wide readership.

Author : Ros Scott,Steven Howlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198788270

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The Changing Face of Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care by Ros Scott,Steven Howlett Pdf

Volunteers have a long been involved in supporting the delivery of palliative care. Indeed in some countries, the range and quality of hospice and palliative care services depends on the involvement of volunteers. Hospice and palliative care services and volunteering are changing. As society develops, so too does volunteering. Volunteers have growing expectations of organizations, and increasingly seek roles that meet their needs and aspirations, rather than fitting in with organizational approaches. As hospice and palliative care services experience increasing and changing demands for their services due to aging populations with complex healthcare needs, we need to recognize that volunteers have a vital role to play in supporting the delivery of services of the future. The Changing Face of Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care explores the complex phenomenon that is volunteering in hospice and palliative care in different countries. It considers how and why volunteering is changing, through the contributions of authors from Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Australia, Africa, and India. It reflects on the influence of culture and organisational contexts, in addition to management approaches, legislative, and political influences, highlighting factors that contribute to the success of volunteering. Contributing to knowledge and understanding in the field of volunteering in hospice and palliative care internationally, this book highlights the factors that contribute to the success of volunteering models, allowing readers to see possibilities for change and find new ideas for innovative practice in their own setting.

Author : Parin Dossa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Death
ISBN : 9781487525309

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Social Palliation by Parin Dossa Pdf

Social Palliation is a pioneering study on living and dying as articulated by first-generation Iranian and Ismaili Muslim communities in Canada. Using ethnographic narratives, Parin Dossa makes a case for a paradigm shift from palliative care to social palliation. Experiences of displacement and resettlement reveal that life and death must be understood as an integrated unit if we are to appreciate what it is like to be awakened to our human existence. In the wake of structural exclusion and systemic suffering, social palliation brings to light displaced persons' endeavours to restore the integrity of life and death. Dossa highlights the point that death conjoined with life is embedded within the socio-cultural and spiritual experience. Here, a caring society is not perceived in fragments, as is the case with traditional institutional care or care offered during end-of-life. Rather, Dossa draws attention to an organic form of caring, illustrated through the trajectories of storied lives. In exemplifying more humane aspects of social palliation, this book foregrounds sacred traditions to illustrate their potential to evoke deep-level conversations across socio-political boundaries on what it is like to live and die in the contemporary world.

Author : Henry Lawlor Spelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198821274

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Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence by Henry Lawlor Spelman Pdf

Taking Pindar as its focus, this volume offers the first book-length study devoted to the rhetoric and realities of literary permanence in early Greek poetry. It explores how Pindar's odes address their first and later audiences, and how the poet's vision of his literary world illuminates the context within which he anticipated its permanence.

Author : David Kissane,Barry Bultz,Phyllis Butow,Ilora Finlay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1061 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191620812

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Handbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care by David Kissane,Barry Bultz,Phyllis Butow,Ilora Finlay Pdf

This comprehensive text provides clinicians with practical and evidence-based guidelines to achieve effective, patient-centered communication in the areas of cancer and palliative care. Written by an outstanding panel of international experts, it integrates empirical findings with clinical wisdom, draws on historical approaches and presents a state-of-the-art curriculum for applied communication skills training for the specialist oncologist, surgeon, nurse and other multi-disciplinary team members involved in cancer care today. In this book communication is broken down into key modules that cover the life-cycle of cancer care. They include coverage of diagnosis and treatment including clinical trials, empathic support in response to distress, transition to survivorship or palliative therapies, discussion of prognosis, conduct of family meetings, and care of the dying. Complementary training of patients in their communication with the doctor completes the interactive dyad. The art of teaching, impact of gender and power in the consultation and the ethical context are carefully considered. Special communication challenges include discussion of genetic risk, rehabilitative and salvage surgery, promotion of treatment adherence, unanticipated adverse outcomes, intercultural issues, fertility and sexuality. The value of decision aides, question prompt lists, audio-recording of consultations and use of the internet is illustrated. By looking across the full spectrum of disciplines involved in the multidisciplinary team, discipline-specific issues are considered by experts in each field. In this manner, the needs of patients and their relatives are evaluated, including paediatric and geriatric populations. To achieve all of this, theoretical models are examined from the medical school to the highly specialized practice, facilitation training and actor training are made explicit, and international approaches to communication skills training are compared and contrasted. Finally, research tools that assist in coding cancer consultations, evaluating training courses, and employing mixed methods in studies aid the reader in providing clear and sensitive communication when handling challenging situations whilst treating cancer sufferers and palliative care patients.

Author : Arthur W. Frank
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780226260259

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The Renewal of Generosity by Arthur W. Frank Pdf

Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient. Too many patients are left unhappy with how they are treated, and too many medical professionals feel estranged from the calling that drew them to medicine. Arthur W. Frank tells the stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who are restoring generosity to medicine—generosity toward others and to themselves. The Renewal of Generosity evokes medicine as the face-to-face encounter that comes before and after diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and surgeries. Frank calls upon the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin to reflect on stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who transform demoralized medicine into caring relationships. He presents their stories as a source of consolation for both ill and professional alike and as an impetus to changing medical systems. Frank shows how generosity is being renewed through dialogue that is more than the exchange of information. Dialogue is an ethic and an ideal for people on both sides of the medical encounter who want to offer more to those they meet and who want their own lives enriched in the process. The Renewal of Generosity views illness and medical work with grace and compassion, making an invaluable contribution to expanding our vision of suffering and healing.

Author : Miriam Jaffe,Widian Nicola,Jerry Floersch,Jeffrey Longhofer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000057034

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Spirituality in Mental Health Practice by Miriam Jaffe,Widian Nicola,Jerry Floersch,Jeffrey Longhofer Pdf

This key text presents an accessible and diverse exploration of spirituality in mental health practice, broadening the definition of spirituality to comprise a variety of transcendent experiences. Chapters include a brief history of the tensions of spirituality in mental health practice and consider a range of emerging topics, from spirituality among the elderly and energy work (Reiki), to spirituality in addiction recovery, incarceration, and hospice work. The book offers a close examination of the limits of the medical model of care, making a case for a more spiritually sensitive practice. Rich case examples are woven throughout, and the book is paired with podcasts that can be applied across chapters, illuminating the narrative stories and building active listening and teaching skills. Suitable for students of social work and counseling at master's level, as well as practicing clinicians, Spirituality in Mental Health Practice is an essential text for widening our understanding of how spiritual frameworks can enrich mental health practice.

Author : Robert Mundle
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784508296

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How to Be an Even Better Listener by Robert Mundle Pdf

Providing guidance and advice on the challenging art of listening, this book responds directly to the expressed learning needs of hospice and palliative care volunteers regarding their communication skills in end-of-life care. Listening can be mentally, physically, and spiritually exhausting, often highlighted in books about hospice and palliative care but never taking the spotlight. This accessible companion provides hospice and palliative care workers with a variety of helpful insights and suggestions drawn from a solid base of current theoretical concepts and clinical research. With personal reflections on being listened to, the guide includes strategies for becoming a more effective listener, as well as exploring the challenges of listening, the need for self-care and spiritual and ethical considerations. By expanding their own capacity for empathy, compassion and understanding the wider narrative of illness, hospice and palliative care volunteers will become even better listeners in their essential roles.

Author : Carole-Lynne Le Navenec,Laurel Bridges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Arts
ISBN : PSU:000057217703

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Creating Connections Between Nursing Care and the Creative Arts Therapies by Carole-Lynne Le Navenec,Laurel Bridges Pdf

Author : Emerson R. Marks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Classicism
ISBN : UOM:39015009047567

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The Poetics of Reason by Emerson R. Marks Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1740 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canadian periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015066399034

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Canadian Periodical Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Warren Bargad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X002588547

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"To Write the Lips of Sleepers" by Warren Bargad Pdf

Analyzes the career and writings of Hebrew poet Amir Gilboa from his beginnings as the young Yiddish poet Berl Feldman to his emigration to the Land of Israel, where he became Amir Gilboa, exploring his work at every stage of his career.

Author : Gerald Kamber
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038104084

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Max Jacob and the Poetics of Cubism by Gerald Kamber Pdf

Max Jacob was born on July 12, 1876, at Quimper, Brittany, to Alsatian-Jewish parents of modest means, his father being a tailor and part-time antique dealer. Although Jacob proved at first to be a mediocre student, he displayed a lightning-like intelligence from an early age. He was also beset by numerous manias. Inordinately sensitive, he accused his schoolmates of persecuting him and complained that his brothers beat him and that his authoritarian mother mistreated him at home. -- Pg. XI.