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Book SynopsisPhilosopher 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 - the incarcerated and the elderly - to explore how individuals creatively cope with societal as well as physical challenges.
Trade Review“
The Healing Body displays Drew Leder at the height of his powers: both erudite and attuned to the everyday, both expansive in scope and precise in practical insight. A powerful, necessary read for anyone interested in the relationship between embodiment and the good life.” - Joel Michael Reynolds, author of
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality“Drawing on traditional and nontraditional sources in philosophy and medicine, Drew Leder addresses structural injustices based on race, class, gender, and carceral status that so often impede the healing process. To mend the body, he maintains, we must also repair the sociopolitical worlds in which we dwell.” - Gail Weiss, author of
Body Images: Embodiment as IntercorporealityTable of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: A Musical Introduction: Re-possibilizing Life after Illness and Incapacity
- Section One: Twenty Healing Strategies
- Chapter 2: Escaping and Embracing the Body
- Chapter 3: Chronic Healing: Repairing Time
- Chapter 4: Objectification and Communion
- Chapter 5: Receiving and Giving
- Section Two: The Marginalized Body
- Chapter 6: Incarceration and/as Illness
- Chapter 7: Elder Wisdom: Re-possibilizing Later Life
- Section Three: The Inside-Out Body
- Chapter 8: Inside Insights and the “Inferior Interior”
- Chapter 9: Breath as the Hinge of Dis-ease and Healing
- Chapter 10: The Transparent Body
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
