GCU Human Experience of Illness The Death of Ivan Ilych Discussion

Based on The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy and other topic study materials, write a 750-1,000-word paper that considers the experience of illness and does the following:

1. Analyzes the story of Ivan Ilych in terms of concepts of the “healing environment” found in Chapters 7-9 of Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing.
2. Describes the phenomenology of illness and disease (i.e., the personal “what it is like” of illness and disease).
3. Analyzes your own experience with illness and disease, what impacted that experience, and how it impacted your life.