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" Eros and illness / "
David B. Morris.
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879577
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Morris, David B.
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Eros and illness /\ David B. Morris.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :: Harvard University Press,, [2017]
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, ©2017
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1 online resource (350 pages) :: illustrations
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0674977912
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0674659716
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9780674659711
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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: 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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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."--
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Desire (Philosophy)
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Medicine and psychology.
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Personalized medicine.
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Sick-- Psychology.
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Behavioral Medicine.
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Desire (Philosophy)
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Health Care Issues.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Holism.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Reference.
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MEDICAL-- Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Atlases.
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MEDICAL-- Essays.
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MEDICAL-- Family General Practice.
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MEDICAL-- Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Osteopathy.
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Medicine and psychology.
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Personalized medicine.
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Sick-- Psychology.
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| Dewey Classification
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610
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R726.5.M666 2017eb
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WB 103
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