@article{838464,
      recid = {838464},
      author = {Robbins, Brent Dean.},
      title = {The medicalized body and anesthetic culture : the cadaver,  the memorial body, and the recovery of lived experience.},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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 how medical culture operates as an  agent which promotes anesthetic consciousness as a habit of  perception. In short, modern medicine's comportment toward  the cadaver promotes the suppression of the memory of the  person who donated their body. This suppression of the  memorial body comes at the price of concealing the lived,  experiential body of patients in medical practice. Robbins  argues that this style of coping has influenced Western  culture and has helped to foster maladaptive patterns of  perception associated with experiential avoidance,  diminished empathy, death denial, and the dysregulation of  emotion.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/838464},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95356-1},
}