Laura Kalas, Margery Kempe’s Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course. Woodbridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Pp. 268; black-and-white figures. $99. ISBN: 978-1-8438-4554-6.

Speculum ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-204
Author(s):  
Julie Orlemanski
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S604-S604
Author(s):  
Rachel Donnelly

Abstract The health consequences of multiple family member deaths across the life course has received less attention in the bereavement literature. Moreover, recent research shows that black Americans are more likely than white Americans to lose multiple family members. I analyze longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (1992-2014) to assess how multiple family member losses across the life course are associated with declines in health among older adults. Findings suggest that multiple family losses prior to midlife are associated with a number of indicators of poor health (e.g., functional limitations, cardiometabolic health) and steeper declines in health as individuals age. Losses after midlife additionally undermine health declines for older adults. Thus, family member loss functions as a cumulative burden of stress across the life course that erodes health in mid- and later-life. Family loss disproportionately burdens black Americans and serves as a unique source of disadvantage for black families.


2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 143-153
Author(s):  
Rachel Donnelly ◽  
Debra Umberson ◽  
Tetyana Pudrovska

Objective: To examine whether exposure to family member deaths throughout the life course is associated with subjective life expectancy—a person’s assessment of their own mortality risk—at age 65, with attention to differences by race. Method: We analyzed 11 waves of data from a study of men and women above age 50 (Health and Retirement Study; n = 13,973). Results: Experiencing the deaths of multiple family members before the respondent is 50 years old is negatively associated with subjective life expectancy at age 65. Discussion: Understanding the life-course predictors of older adults’ subjective life expectancy is particularly important because survival expectations influence long-term planning, health, and longevity. Moreover, Black Americans are exposed to more family member deaths earlier in their life compared with White Americans, with implications for long-term health and well-being.


1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela K. Adelmann ◽  
Kirsten Chadwick ◽  
Dana Royce Baerger

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Tania Zittoun ◽  
Jaan Valsiner ◽  
Dankert Vedeler ◽  
Joao Salgado ◽  
Miguel M. Goncalves ◽  
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