ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on cancer, and particularly, on doctors and nurses who work with patients in the advanced stages of this disease. It illustrates how emotions deny the normative, offering dread, disgust and abandonment into the mix of supposedly positive associations with 'care' at the end of life. The book shows how the adult adoptees support group For Adoptees has intentionally mobilised affective politics to evoke feelings of discontent, pain, anger, racialisation and marginalisation in order to affectively problematise the pathologisation of adoptees' emotions. It examines a Family Constellation Therapy session for adult adoptees that mobilised what we refer to as the practice of radical affectivity, an intensive, mutual healing sessions that employs performative re-enactments of extreme suffering seeking subjective transformation without the promise of a 'happy end'.
