Sawyer, Joseph M;
(2022)
Understanding dying as a focal point for defining an integrative approach to health and social care.
Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
, Article 100543. 10.1016/j.jaim.2022.100543.
(In press).
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Abstract
Long standing and poorly acknowledged tensions underpin what is considered success or failure in the field of health and social care. Such tensions threaten to undermine and limit much needed progress. In this article, I discuss the role of death and the dying process as a foundation upon which we might begin to address these tensions. I argue that through careful acknowledgement and attention to the stillness and silence of death we might better understand the impact the dying process has on the healthcare discourses that surround and orientate themselves to it. Training our eye to the rhythm of the human life course necessitates a greater appreciation of death and its influence in shaping a meaningful response to questions relating to care and the attention to human suffering. With this comes a move beyond a singular focus on the body as life's container, embracing human connections that transcend the physical and social worlds. Here our dependency and vulnerability are as much as what makes as human as our autonomy and rationality. Such an appreciation allows us to move away from values entrenched within notions of success and failure and towards a more integrative approach to health and social care.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Understanding dying as a focal point for defining an integrative approach to health and social care |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jaim.2022.100543 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Death, Palliative care, Public health, Social capital, Social determinants of health, Global health |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry > Marie Curie Palliative Care UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10143350 |
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