It’s about time for untimely action

Illness, but also caring for the ill and mourning the dead, requires allowing oneself to experience a different time, an embodied untimeliness where different rhythms coexist, removed from the speedy tumult of those for whom health is no immediate concern. Rather than a chronological flow, it is a k...

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Published inRevista Internacional de Educação e Saúde Vol. 7; p. e5389
Main Author Chainey, Benjamin Gagnon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública 19.10.2023
Subjects
Caring
Creativity
Illness
Literature
Untimeliness
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ISSN2594-7907
2594-7907
DOI10.17267/2594-7907ijeh.2023.e5389

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Summary:Illness, but also caring for the ill and mourning the dead, requires allowing oneself to experience a different time, an embodied untimeliness where different rhythms coexist, removed from the speedy tumult of those for whom health is no immediate concern. Rather than a chronological flow, it is a kairotic time, which is sensitive to the context, and allows wanderings and repetitions, hesitations, and changes in pace[1]. Caring and mourning demands “untimeliness and disadjustment of the contemporary[2].” In that sense, the intimate experience of illness is comparable to a form of creativity.
ISSN:2594-7907
2594-7907
DOI:10.17267/2594-7907ijeh.2023.e5389