Takin' It One Day at a Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380139 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Devin Flaherty (University of Texas at San Antonio [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-76 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2019.370106 |
| OpenAlex | W2946140060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 26 |
In this article, I explore anticipation as a site of moral experience and moral willing when death may be nearby. Through an examination of the narratives of the wife of a hospice patient in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, I show that her commitment to not anticipate the course of her husband's illness is a moral project pitted against biomedical modes of prognostication. In a context in which hospice care is the only option available for many older adults in poor health, I discuss the incommensurability between this position and the anticipatory horizon on which hospice care is predicated: the patient's imminent death. I argue for an approach to this woman's experience that takes into account the tendency for temporal orientations to be thrown into flux when death might be nearby, without reducing her commitment to not anticipate to mere avoidance or 'denial
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Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots
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The Paradox of Hope
‘And a Time to Die
Tahitians
Handbook of methods in cultural anthropology
The Dying Process
Between living well and dying well
Recent Jamaican Words in Sociolinguistic Context
Moral Laboratories
Kiss-Teeth
Keeping the Future at Bay
In the subjunctive mode
On Anticipatory Accounts
Waiting
Dictionary of Jamaican english
The Method of Hope
This Path Is Full of Thorns
Moral Experience
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |