The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture

Brent Dean Robbins is Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He is former President of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association.

1.  The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture.- 2.  Confronting the Cadaver: The Denial of Death in Modern Medicine.- 3.  Time and Efficiency in the Age of Calculative Rationality: A Metabletic Entry Point.- 4.  The Zombie Body of Linear Perspective Vision.- 5.  Applications of Terror Management Theory.- 6.  Terror Management in Medical Culture.- 7.  Dehumanization in Modern Medicine and Science.- 8.  Objectification of the Body as a Terror Management Defense.- 9.  The Objectification of Women and Nature.- 10.  The Role of the Medical Cadaver in the Genesis of Enlightenment-Era Science and Technology.- 11.  A Theological Context.- 12. The Changing Nature of the Cadaver.- 13.  Anesthetic Culture.- 14.  Psychiatry’s Collusion with Anesthetic Culture.- 15.  Mindfulness—the Way of the Heart.