Brent Dean Robbins: 1 book
The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture
The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
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...
