Eros and Illness

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Eros and Illness

Author	: David B. Morris
File Size	: 53,6 Mb
Publisher	: Unknown
Language	: English
Release Date	: 04 May 2024
ISBN	: 0674977912
Pages	: 350 pages

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Eros and Illness by David B. Morris Book PDF Summary

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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

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