Description
Paper presented at the Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference: 'Anthropocene Transitions' 2016Abstract
The limits of the biomedical model of medicine and the need for a broader perspective able to encompass psychological, social, cultural and environmental etiological factors have been emphasized over the last decades. A prominent part of social suffering that permeates contemporary society in dealing with cancer is consistent with Western dichotomous ontology of disease. This work addresses cancer illness’ experience through a phenomenological approach and a direct personal experience. Cancer event shapes and is shaped by practices that are simultaneously enacted upon the body, its emotional mindful landscape, its network of relationships and its lived environment. Foucault’s concept of Heterotopia encompasses these spaces of otherness and represents a suitable topos to understand this complex event. This exploration provides support for rethinking the disease of the Other as embodied awareness in a more holistic and integrated perspective and supports the tendency towards a more interdisciplinary approach in health care.
Period | 14 Dec 2016 |
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Event title | Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2016 : Anthropocene Transitions |
Event type | Conference |
Location | Sydney, Australia, New South WalesShow on map |
Degree of Recognition | International |
Documents & Links
- Pini_Embodying otherness: The heterotopic body in cancer experience_AAS 2016 presentation
File: application/pdf, 1.45 MB
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