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Dutiful Love: Empowering Individuals and Families Affected by Mental Ill: Empowering Individuals and Families Affected by Mental Illness by Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty, Bill Gaventa is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty pursues places where care for people with serious mental illness and their families is unraveled in the United States. She picks up threads of empowerment from the Christian tradition to address the distinctive circumstances of individuals and families affected by mental illness, and draws upon her own experiences as the sibling of someone with serious mental illness (SMI). As a scholar of theology and Christian ethics, the author challenges the traditional theological explanations of disability and madness and the public policies that try to fit people with SMI into boxes and checklists made for those with minds and bodies society values as ideal. __Dutiful Love__ explores the distinctive relationship between self-sacrificial love and caregiving when that duty to care extends over the course of an entire lifetime because of social limitations placed upon people with mental illness. Hinson-Hasty investigates how the Christian theological tradition shapes our Western understanding of normal and abnormal minds and bodies. This approach to mental and physical impairment associates healing with curing but neglects the empowerment thread that is part of the gos

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Author

Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty, Bill Gaventa

Publisher

FORTRESS PRESS, U S

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781506464893

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Medical, Religion