Reconciling the Uniquely Embodied Grief of Perinatal Death
A Narrative Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5016201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamarin Norwood (0000-0002-2142-3307, Loughborough University, corresponding author), John Boulton (0000-0002-9275-3389, University of Newcastle Australia) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 976 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel12110976 |
| OpenAlex | W3212703997 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
The death of a baby, stillborn or living only briefly after birth, is a moral affront to the cycle of life, leaving parents without the life stories and material objects that traditionally offer comfort to the bereaved, nor-in an increasingly secularized society-a religious framework for making sense of their loss. For the grieving mother, it is also a physical affront, as her body continues to rehearse its part in its symbiotic relationship with a baby whose own body is disintegrating. Attempting to forge continuing bonds with her child after death makes special demands upon the notion of embodied spirituality, as she attempts to make sense of this tragedy in an embodied way. This paper, which reconciles the distinct perspectives of bereaved mothers and children's doctors, proposes that the thoughtful re-presentation of medical insight into pregnancy and fetal development may assuage parents' grief by adding precious detail to their baby's life course, and by offering the mother a material basis to conceptualize her own body as part of the distributed personhood of her baby
Aesthetics · Art · Developmental psychology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Grief · Life course approach · Literature · Narrative · Personhood · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Social science · Sociology · Spirituality · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices
Religious coping and mental health outcomes among bereaved older women in the Nurses Health Study II
Dislocated and Disrupted
Ritual Worlding. Exploring the Self-and-world-making Efficacy of Rituals
The Relationship of Religious Coping with Psychological Well-being, Psychological Resilience, and Grief Severity in Women Who Had Experienced Perinatal Loss in Türkiye
Birth and Death
The Matter of Death
Narrative Medicine
Metaphors in communication about pregnancy loss
A Comparison of Adult Bereavement in the Death of a Spouse, Child, and Parent
Critical medical humanities
Metaphor and Neonatal Death
What Does It Mean to Live a Fully Embodied Spiritual Life
Ritualizing Pregnancy and Childbirth in Secular Societies
He was a Real Baby with Baby Things
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |