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Umfang: 1 online resource (361 pages)

ISBN: 9780674977938 , 0674977939 , 9780674977914 , 0674977912

Inhalt: When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into disarray, our routines are interrupted, our beliefs shaken. David Morris offers an unconventional, deeply human exploration of what it means to live with, and live through, disease. He shows how desire-emotions, dreams, stories, romance, even eroticism-plays a crucial part in illness.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction. What Is Eros? -- , Part One. The Contraries -- , Chapter 1. The Ambush: An Erotics of Illness -- , Chapter 2. Unforgetting Asklepios: Medical Eros and Its Lineage -- , Chapter 3. Not- Knowing: Medicine in the Dark -- , Part Two. The Stories -- , Chapter 4. Varieties of Erotic Experience: Five Illness Narratives -- , Chapter 5. Eros Modigliani: Assenting to Life -- , Chapter 6. The Infinite Faces of Pain: Eros and Ethics -- , Part Three. The Dilemmas -- , Chapter 7. Black Swan Syndrome: Probable Improbabilities -- , Chapter 8. Light as Environment: How Not to Love Nature -- , Chapter 9. The Spark of Life: Appearances / Disappearances -- , Conclusion. Altered States -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780674659711

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0674659716

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.4159/9780674977914

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (368 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-0-674-97791-4

Inhalt: Susan Sontag once described illness as “the night-side of life.” When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into darkness and disarray, our routines are interrupted, our deepest beliefs shaken. The modern regime of hyper-logical biomedicine offers little solace when it comes to the effects of ill health on our inner lives. By exploring the role of desire in illness, Eros and Illness offers an alternative: an unconventional, deeply human exploration of what it means to live with, and live through, disease. When we face down illness, something beyond biomedicine’s extremely valuable advances in treatment and prevention is sorely needed. Desire in its many guises plays a crucial part in illness, David Morris shows. Emotions, dreams, and stories—even romance and eroticism—shape our experiences as patients and as caregivers. Our perception of the world we enter through illness—including too often a world of pain—is shaped by desire. Writing from his own heartbreaking experience as a caretaker for his wife, Morris relates how desire can worsen or, with care, mitigate the heavy weight of disease. He looks to myths, memoirs, paintings, performances, and narratives to understand how illness is intertwined with the things we value most dearly. Drawing on cultural resources from many centuries and media, Eros and Illness reaches out a hand to guide us through the long night of illness, showing us how to find productive desire where we expected only despair and defeat

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-674-97791-4

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.4159/9780674977914

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

Mehr zum Autor: Morris, David B., 1942-,