Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later LifeElizabeth MacKinlay Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15 févr. 2008 - 272 pages This collection examines theological and ethical issues of ageing, disability and spirituality, with an emphasis on how ageing affects people who have mental health and developmental disabilities. |
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... Hauerwas' Theology of Disability (Swinton 2004), notes that as a physician working with children having profound intellectual disabilities he came to realize that what he and they were sharing was their spirituality. That, he saw, 'did ...
... Hauerwas presents an ethical perspective to the topic. He sees the secular position on mental disability as only providing hope for disabled people to the extent that they may be enabled to become independent. Hauerwas sets out an ...
... (Hauerwas 2004a, p.16). McNamara (in Chapter 3) gives emphasis to human bodiliness and our responses to each other as wounded healers, drawing on Nouwan's concept of the wounded healer. McNamara sets out the importance of our ...
... Hauerwas (2004a, p.19) notes that the only benefits of the process of labelling may be to 'the agents of intervention'. Further, Hauerwas writes, the issue 'is not just the label, but who gets to use the label' (2004b, p.196). Issues of ...
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Table des matières
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A Narrative of Ageing
Loss and Exclusion | 72 |
Ethical
and Theological Issues for
Dementia Care | 81 |
Exploring Disability
and Spirituality | 94 |
The Interplay of Faith
and Depression in Later Life | 163 |
The Potential for Choir Work
to Reduce Depression and
Meet Spiritual Needs | 182 |
Chapter
15
Humour and Its Link to Meaning
and Spirituality in War | 200 |
Chapter
16
Pastoral Rituals Ageing and
New Paths into Meaning | 217 |
The Possibilities for
Wellbeing and Care | 233 |
REFERENCES
| 240 |
CONTRIBUTORS
| 258 |
SUBJECT INDEX
| 263 |
Jacobs
Wrestling with the Unknown
Genesis 32 | 106 |
Addressing the Challenge of
Dementia in Later Life | 118 |
A Journey Inwards
to a Spiritual Self | 134 |
Buddhist Perspectives for a
Theology of Pastoral Care
for the Ageing and Persons
with Disabilities | 145 |
AUTHOR INDEX
| 269 |
back cover | 273 |