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Intro; The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture; Confronting the Cadaver: The Denial of Death in Modern Medicine; Time and Efficiency in the Age of Calculative Rationality: A Metabletic Entry Point; The Zombie Body of Linear Perspective Vision; Applications of Terror Management Theory; Terror Management in Medical Culture; Dehumanization in Modern Medicine and Science; Objectification of the Body as a Terror Management Defense; The Objectification of Women and Nature.
The Role of the Medical Cadaver in the Genesis of Enlightenment-Era Science and TechnologyA Theological Context; The Changing Nature of the Cadaver; Anesthetic Culture; Psychiatry's Collusion with Anesthetic Culture; Mindfulness-The Way of the Heart; References; Chapter 2 Confronting the Cadaver: The Denial of Death in Modern Medicine; Death Denial; The Concretization of Death as a Denial of Existential Death; Cadaver Dissection as Initiation Rite in Medical Education; Lessons from the Dead; References.
Chapter 3 Time and Efficiency in the Age of Calculative Rationality: A Metabletic Entry PointThe Phenomenological Attitude; Phenomenology and Modern Science; A Cultural Crisis; The Risk Society; Human Dignity; Medical Culture as Risk Containment; References; Chapter 4 The Zombie Body of Linear Perspective Vision; The Embodiment of Linear Perspective Vision; Time in Linear Perspective; An Infinite Field; The Sacrifice of Reality; Clock Time and the Geometric Space of Linear Vision; The Encapsulated Subject; The Zombie Mythology; References; Chapter 5 Applications of Terror Management Theory.
Terror Management Theory and Medical CopingSelf-Esteem and Cultural Worldview as Buffers Against Death Anxiety; Neuroscientific Evidence: The Role of the Insula; Management of Threats to Self-Worth; Threats to Meaning; Social Prejudice, Stereotyping and Intergroup Conflict; References; Chapter 6 Terror Management in Medical Culture; The Physician as Secular Priest; Motivations for Entering Medical School; Medicine as Hero Project; The Threat of Error; Worldview Defense in Medicine; The Faith-Health Connection; Scientism as a Worldview; References.
Chapter 7 Dehumanization in Modern Medicine and ScienceWhere Is the "Person" in Medicine; The Need for Holistic and Non-reductive Approaches to Science; Objectification as a Worldview Defense; Dehumanization in Medicine; The Anxiety-Buffering Function of Dehumanization; Dehumanization in Psychiatry; Types of Dehumanization in Medicine; Objectification as the Product of Objectivist Epistemology and Reductive Metaphysics; Objectification as Death Denial; References; Chapter 8 Objectification of the Body as a Terror Management Defense; The Cadaver vs. the Lived Body.
The Role of the Medical Cadaver in the Genesis of Enlightenment-Era Science and TechnologyA Theological Context; The Changing Nature of the Cadaver; Anesthetic Culture; Psychiatry's Collusion with Anesthetic Culture; Mindfulness-The Way of the Heart; References; Chapter 2 Confronting the Cadaver: The Denial of Death in Modern Medicine; Death Denial; The Concretization of Death as a Denial of Existential Death; Cadaver Dissection as Initiation Rite in Medical Education; Lessons from the Dead; References.
Chapter 3 Time and Efficiency in the Age of Calculative Rationality: A Metabletic Entry PointThe Phenomenological Attitude; Phenomenology and Modern Science; A Cultural Crisis; The Risk Society; Human Dignity; Medical Culture as Risk Containment; References; Chapter 4 The Zombie Body of Linear Perspective Vision; The Embodiment of Linear Perspective Vision; Time in Linear Perspective; An Infinite Field; The Sacrifice of Reality; Clock Time and the Geometric Space of Linear Vision; The Encapsulated Subject; The Zombie Mythology; References; Chapter 5 Applications of Terror Management Theory.
Terror Management Theory and Medical CopingSelf-Esteem and Cultural Worldview as Buffers Against Death Anxiety; Neuroscientific Evidence: The Role of the Insula; Management of Threats to Self-Worth; Threats to Meaning; Social Prejudice, Stereotyping and Intergroup Conflict; References; Chapter 6 Terror Management in Medical Culture; The Physician as Secular Priest; Motivations for Entering Medical School; Medicine as Hero Project; The Threat of Error; Worldview Defense in Medicine; The Faith-Health Connection; Scientism as a Worldview; References.
Chapter 7 Dehumanization in Modern Medicine and ScienceWhere Is the "Person" in Medicine; The Need for Holistic and Non-reductive Approaches to Science; Objectification as a Worldview Defense; Dehumanization in Medicine; The Anxiety-Buffering Function of Dehumanization; Dehumanization in Psychiatry; Types of Dehumanization in Medicine; Objectification as the Product of Objectivist Epistemology and Reductive Metaphysics; Objectification as Death Denial; References; Chapter 8 Objectification of the Body as a Terror Management Defense; The Cadaver vs. the Lived Body.