Eros and illness / David B. Morris.
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Morris, David B., (author.)
- ISBN 978-0-674-65971-1 (cloth)
- Publicerad: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Engelska 350 pages
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- 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: Black-swan syndrome: probable improbabilities -- Light as environment: how not to love nature -- The spark of life: appearances / disappearances -- Conclusion: Altered states.
- 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 dominated by the new molecular gaze. The use of a person's distinctive genetic data to guide treatment and to forestall disease--called "personalized medicine"-- reflects how the molecular gaze can produce valuable advances in biomedical healthcare. What does this indispensable super-vision, however, tend to overlook? Eros and Illness proposes that biomedicine ignores, in clinical practice and in bench science, the powerful role of desire in illness. Desire, always double-edged, requires attention because it can do both great harm and great good. Patients, caregivers, family members, and physicians, as they recognize the role of desire, gain access to a power that can make the passage through illness much less onerous and far more healing: truly "personalized." --
Ämnesord
- Beteendemedicin (sao)
- Begär (filosofi) (sao)
- Precisionsmedicin (sao)
- Sick -- Psychology. (LCSH)
- Medicine and psychology. (LCSH)
- Desire (Philosophy) (LCSH)
- Personalized medicine. (LCSH)
- Desire (Philosophy) (fast)
- Medicine and psychology. (fast)
- Personalized medicine. (fast)
- Sick -- Psychology. (fast)
- Attitude to Health. (MeSH)
- Emotions. (MeSH)
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice. (MeSH)
- 44.07 behavioral medicine. (nbc)
- Desire (Philosophy) (LCSH)
- Medicine and psychology (LCSH)
- Personalized medicine (LCSH)
Klassifikation
- R726.5 (LCC)
- 2017 C-660 (NLM)
- W 85 (NLM)
- 610 (DDC)
- V (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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