{"product_id":"the-healing-body-creative-responses-to-illness-aging-and-affliction-9780810146372","title":"The Healing Body: Creative Responses to Illness, Aging, and Affliction","description":"\u003cb\u003eA philosophically and medically informed response to the physical vulnerabilities of our existence\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As we grapple with the impacts of an aging population, the millions who struggle with chronic pain and illness, and the unknown number of COVID survivors dealing with long-term impairment, our individual and collective trust in our bodies is shaken. How to adapt? And how to live well, even when medical cure is unavailable? In \u003ci\u003eThe Healing Body: Creative Responses to Illness, Aging, and Affliction\u003c\/i\u003e, philosopher and medical doctor Drew Leder shows how the phenomenology of lived embodiment makes available a variety of existential healing responses to bodily breakdown. Leder also turns to socially marginalized groups--people who have been incarcerated and those deemed \"elderly\"--to explore how individuals creatively cope with societal as well as physical challenges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book forwards current phenomenological research on the body, pain and suffering, disability, and aging. It deeply engages with the legacies of continental philosophy while also drawing insights from the traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. \u003ci\u003eThe Healing Body \u003c\/i\u003eis a uniquely creative and refreshingly innovative contribution to contemporary philosophy, demonstrating the importance of the philosophical method to the wider culture. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDREW LEDER\u003c\/b\u003e is a doctor of medicine and a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. His many books include\u003ci\u003e The Absent Body \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717489758482,"sku":"9780810146372","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31ed0a75-db8e-4de3-b4c3-6ef000bc4f2b.jpg?v=1734618894","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-healing-body-creative-responses-to-illness-aging-and-affliction-9780810146372","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}