Pamela Van Der Riet
Biographic Data
| ID | 4276290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Van Der Riet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Riet |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER RIET P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mayne Pharma (Australia) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0101-8988 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Abject Embodiment of Cancer Patients
The body is the empirical quintessence of the self. Because selfhood is symbolic, embodiment represents the personification and materialization of otherwise invisible qualities of personhood. The body and experiences of embodiment are central to our sense of being, who we think we are, and what others attribute to us. What happens, then, when one's body is humiliating? How does the self handle the implications of a gruesome body? How do people ma…
The sexual embodiment of the cancer patient
The sexual embodiment of the cancer patient This paper draws upon data from my doctoral studies and uses poststructuralism as a methodology to provide a way of seeing and understanding cancer patients’ complex experience of their bodies. Cancer patients were massaged for the purpose of this study and the themes addressed in this article are linked to the sexuality of the person being massaged and the masseuse (PVDR). In order to capture the richn…
The Abject Embodiment of Cancer Patients
The body is the empirical quintessence of the self. Because selfhood is symbolic, embodiment represents the personification and materialization of otherwise invisible qualities of personhood. The body and experiences of embodiment are central to our sense of being, who we think we are, and what others attribute to us. What happens, then, when one's body is humiliating? How does the self handle the implications of a gruesome body? How do people ma…
The sexual embodiment of the cancer patient
The sexual embodiment of the cancer patient This paper draws upon data from my doctoral studies and uses poststructuralism as a methodology to provide a way of seeing and understanding cancer patients’ complex experience of their bodies. Cancer patients were massaged for the purpose of this study and the themes addressed in this article are linked to the sexuality of the person being massaged and the masseuse (PVDR). In order to capture the richn…
The Abject Embodiment of Cancer Patients
The body is the empirical quintessence of the self. Because selfhood is symbolic, embodiment represents the personification and materialization of otherwise invisible qualities of personhood. The body and experiences of embodiment are central to our sense of being, who we think we are, and what others attribute to us. What happens, then, when one's body is humiliating? How does the self handle the implications of a gruesome body? How do people ma…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (1 work) · Cancer (1 work) · Dignity (1 work) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (1 work) · Empathy and Medical Education (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)