The Doxa of Dignity: Dying Well with Susan Sontag and Maria Gerhardt [0.03%]
尊严的观念：与苏珊·桑塔格和玛丽亚·格尔哈特共话善终
Tobias Skiveren
Tobias Skiveren
This essay questions the hegemony of "dignity" in contemporary bioethical debates about good deaths. It does so by exploring how cultural ideals organize the affective setting of death in David Rieff's memoir, Swimming in a Sea of Death (20...
Geraldine Gorman
Geraldine Gorman
The Insult Is in the FAQ [0.03%]
辱骂就在细则中
Samantha Barrick
Samantha Barrick
There is a buzzing insurgence of interest in medical humanities, narrative medicine, and related arts-based programming aimed at ameliorating some of the tragic failings of our contemporary medical complex and the capitalistic grip it strug...
Palliative Images in Marion Coutts's The Iceberg and Marco Peano's L'invenzione della madre [0.03%]
玛琼·科茨的《冰山》与马可·佩南的《发明母亲》中的临终图景
Maria Vaccarella
Maria Vaccarella
This article explores the representation of terminal brain cancer in Marion Coutts's memoir The Iceberg (2014), on her husband's illness and death, and Marco Peano's autofiction L'invenzione della madre (The invention of the mother; 2015), ...
A Practice of Literary Palliation: Philippe Forest's L'Enfant éternel [0.03%]
疗伤的文学实践——Philippe Forest的《L'Enfant éternel》
Jordan Owen McCullough
Jordan Owen McCullough
Philippe Forest's first autofictional novel, L'Enfant éternel (The eternal child), centers on the terminal illness and eventual death of the author's daughter, Pauline. While scholarly attention has been directed toward the role of the tex...
Franziska Gygax
Franziska Gygax
Research on palliative care emphasizes the crucial role of narratives in the encounter with suffering and dying patients because we need to learn from the dying in order to improve care for them. Autobiographical narratives by terminally il...
Holes in the Protective Cloak of Palliative Care: Mathieu Simonet's La maternité and Eduardo Berti's An Ideal Presence [0.03%]
缓和医疗的保护罩下的漏洞：马休·西蒙内特的《母性》与埃德华多·贝蒂的《理想的在场》
Julia Pröll
Julia Pröll
In the novels An Ideal Presence (2020) by Eduardo Berti and La maternité [Maternity] (2012) by Mathieu Simonet, relatives of the dying and palliative care professionals are given a voice. Their experiences highlight "holes" in the cloak of...
Love, Death, and-No Hospital!: Assisted Dying, "Liebestod," and Existential Suffering [0.03%]
爱、死亡和-不去医院！：辅助自杀、"Liebestod"与存在主义苦难
Marc Keller
Marc Keller
Contemporary literature about assisted dying in Germany, Switzerland, and France repeatedly explores the impact of illness on romantic relationships. Faced with the imminent or experienced death of their loved one, the healthy partner is af...
The Intimate Palliative Sphere: Affect, Gender, and the Good Death in Relational End-of-Life Narratives [0.03%]
亲密的姑息领域：关系式临终叙事中的情感、性别与善死观念
Katja Herges
Katja Herges
An increasing number of collaborative end-of-life narratives have been published after the death of the protagonist. Focusing on two examples of women's end-of-life memoirs in contemporary German popular culture, this essay examines how rel...
Cicely Saunders and the Literary and Cultural Heritage of "Total Pain" [0.03%]
塞西莉·桑德斯与“总体痛苦”的文学和文化传承
Joe Wood
Joe Wood
In this article, I present some of the literary and cultural influences behind hospice pioneer Cicely Saunders's idea of "total pain," a term she used from the 1960s onwards to promote the holistic approach which has since become palliative...