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(2018) The medicalized body and anesthetic culture, Dordrecht, Springer.
Applications of terror management theory
pp. 85-103
In general, people cope with death through two basic avenues, the enhancement of self-esteem and the protection of one's cultural worldview. Neuroscientific evidence has shown a brain area called the insula plays an important role in the self-regulation of emotions associated with terror management, with regard to both self-esteem and empathic engagement with others. These principles of terror management theory provide a framework to unlock modern medicine's unique and rather ingenuous strategies for the management of death anxiety through cognitive and neurological management of self-worth and worldview defense of medical culture.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-95356-1_5
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(2018). Applications of terror management theory, in The medicalized body and anesthetic culture, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 85-103.
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