Eros and illness /

Eros and Illness explores the place of desire in illness. We urgently need such an exploration because illness is no longer simply a natural feature of the human condition. Most people fall ill, but illness now falls under the supervision of biomedicine, a science-based, state-regulated system domin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris, David B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Sick > Psychology.
Medicine and psychology.
Desire (Philosophy)
Precision medicine.
Behavioral Medicine
Sick Role
Precision Medicine
Malades > Psychologie.
Désir (Philosophie)
Médecine de précision.
Médecine comportementale.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
Medicine and psychology
Precision medicine
Sick > Psychology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: What is Eros?
  • Part One. The contraries: The ambush: an erotics of illness
  • Un-forgetting Asklepios: medical Eros and its lineage
  • Not-knowing: medicine in the dark
  • Part Two. The stories: Varieties of erotic experience: five illness narratives
  • Eros Modigliani: assenting to life
  • The infinite faces of pain: Eros and ethics
  • Part Three. The dilemmas: The black-swan syndrome: probable improbabilities
  • Light as environment: how not to love nature
  • The spark of life: appearances / disappearances
  • Conclusion: Altered states.

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