Studia Humanistyczne AGH
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ISSN 2084-3364
e-ISSN: 2300-7109
Issue Date
2018
Volume
T. 17
Number
Nr 3
Description
Journal Volume
Studia Humanistyczne AGH
T. 17 (2018)
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Articles
Palliative and hospice care in social awareness in different countries
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Czyżowska, Natalia
Palliative and hospice care is about improving the quality of life of patients who face a life‑threatening illness through pain management, treating other symptoms and providing psychological, social and spiritual support to the patients and their families. Engagement of an interdisciplinary team of specialists provides the opportunity to identify the needs of the patient and his or her family and to implement appropriate interventions to prevent and alleviate suffering. Promoting the idea of palliative and hospice care is important because it increases the chances that people in need of specialist support at the end of life and their loved ones will know what help they can get and where. The aim of this article is to analyze the findings about levels of knowledge and belief of palliative care in different countries (including the United States, Ireland, Italy and Poland), which indicate that there is still much work to be done on building public awareness. An attempt will be also made to answer the question: why do people know so little about palliative care and what can be done to change this situation?
Metaphorization of categories of disease from a perspective of cognitive linguistics
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Dąsal, Mateusz
The primary way of presenting phenomena which are elusive for the senses, the mechanisms of which exceed our direct cognitive abilities (e.g. viruses, bacteria, infection, treatment) and those that require abstract thinking is through a process of metaphorization. Before the bacteriological breakthrough, diseases could be conceptualized by means of metaphors of the imbalance of the internal system, of punishment, flaw, and sin, of mechanical defects, or by means of personalisation or reification. After Louis Pasteur, the war metaphor was developed and, with technological development, also the mechanistic metaphor, and then the bioinformatics metaphor. On the other hand, today we can see that, as we with become more aware of this process, there is also a need for a new way of their metaphorization to respond to new diseases, especially chronic and incurable ones. In this paper I will try to indicate and briefly discuss various metaphors of disease, however, the bulk of the attention will be dedicated to metaphors linking disease with war, as they are most popular in the contemporary culture.
Analysis of media representations of non-neurotypical students in the context of support for people with autism spectrum disorders offered by Polish state-owned universities. Sociological study
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Drzazga-Lech, Maja; Świątkiewicz-Mośny, Maria
More and more high functioning pupils with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are finishing school, graduating and entering higher education, but in Poland the exact number of these students is still unknown. For academics, especially outside the field of pedagogy and psychology, it is a major challenge to work with students with such dysfunctions. This can activate the social labelling process and negative stigmatisation on the part of people who do not have the knowledge and ability to interact with people with autistic traits. This, in turn, can contribute to perpetuating the stigmatic identity of non‑neurotypical students. This article is exploratory. Its purpose is to present the complexity of the situation of students withASD within the exceptional environment of a university. The inspiration was a controversial article published in a newspaper which evoked a media debate on this issue and activated the process of objectification of social representations of non‑neurotypical adults, especially those with autistic traits. This article focuses on media discourse caused by the controversial article: articles, letters, and responses published in newspapers and newspaper forums, it also comments on legal regulations and assistance programmes.
Rafał Wojaczek's »Sickness Unto Non-Existence«
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Małecka, Anna
The paper focuses upon the philosophical message rendered by Rafał Wojaczek's poetry. The author regards the issue of non‑existence as the central theme of Wojaczek's creative output, and analyses it in the context of existentialist philosophy, referring to Martin Heidegger's concepts in particular. The following four aspects of the leading idea of non‑existence are identified and discussed in the article: non‑existence understood as death which not only constitutes everyone's destiny but also validates individual life, non‑existence as nothingness which is disclosed in anxiety, with the retreat of being in its entirety, non‑existence as a blurred personal identity, and, finally, non‑existence as a condition of creativity. The unique form and style of this poetry are considered to play an essential role in conveying the metaphysical content.
Searching for meaning in life by taking part in drama. The perspective of mentees of the fight cancer academy in Toruń
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Rębiałkowska-Stankiewicz, Małgorzata; Mianowski, Jacek; Gajewska, Magdalena
The situation of an illness is often interpreted as an adverse change in a person’s situation, which is connected to various kinds of burdens like pain, reliance on the healthcare system, hospitalisation, and psychological stress. When analysing the situation of a patient, scrutiny of their spiritual situation through which human intentionality and hence the striving for meaning, value and purpose is manifest, seems called for. This pres-entation will introduce the empirical and axiological framework of the experience of cancer and the search for its meaning expressed through the performing arts, where people with cancer become playwrights and actors. The studies were conducted among the mentees of the Fight Cancer Academy in Toruń. The research methodology entailed textual analysis and a panel interview. Based on the results obtained, we compare the patients’ image of the disease, along with the meanings they attribute to it, with the image of the disease within a wider, cultural discourse.