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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... society is whether the symptoms of dementia depersonalize the sufferer, that is, make them into non-persons. A good example of the consequences of such debate is found in the work of the Australian ethicist Peter Singer. Singer argues ...
... society or community of three fully personal and fully divine individuals, unified by their common divinity, that is, by the possession by each of the whole divine essence. Within such a context love is directed towards human beings ...
... societies is an ethic suitable for 'moral strangers' (Engelhardt 1986). The increasing polarization between the West and Islam also indicates that religion, political ideology, and the role of reason in the human enterprise will ...
... society and thus judged to be second-class citizens (Eiesland 1994). By the seventeenth century, however, a marked change may be observed, for disabled persons by then were numbered among the 'deserving' poor who might have worked but ...
... society such as structures in the built environment and prevailing attitudes. It is certainly true that social factors play a significant role and add to the limits imposed on an individual by specific impairments. To enter further into ...
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 |