Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from
within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected
to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and
depersonalized, and much worse are conditions experienced by prisoners
in our age of mass incarceration, and by animals trapped in our
factory farms. In this pioneering book, Drew Leder offers bold new
ways to rethink how we create and treat distress, clearing the way for
more humane social practices. Leder draws on
literary examples, clinical and philosophical sources, his medical
training, and his own struggle with chronic pain. He levies a
challenge to the capitalist and Cartesian models that rule modern
medicine. Similarly, he looks at the root paradigms of our
penitentiary and factory farm systems and the way these produce
distressed bodies, asking how such institutions can be reformed.
Writing with coauthors ranging from a prominent cardiologist to
long-term inmates, he explores alternative environments that can
better humanize—even spiritualize—the way we treat one another,
offering a very different vision of medical, criminal justice, and
food systems. Ultimately Leder proposes not just new answers to
important bioethical questions but new ways of questioning accepted
concepts and practices.
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ISBN
9780226396248
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
University of Chicago Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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