Morris, David B.
Eros and Illness
- ISBN 13:
- 9780674659711
- author:
- Morris, David B.
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions:
- 23.62 x 15.49 x 3.05 centimetres
- Genre:
- Health & Wellbeing, Health Care Issues, Science
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
When illness strikes, our world is thrown into darkness and disarray. The modern regime of hyper-logical biomedicine offers little solace for the effects of ill health on our inner lives. David Morris explores an alternative: an unconventional, deeply human exploration of what it means to live with, and live through, disease. Morris draws on cultural resources from many centuries and media to understand how illness is intertwined with the things we value most dearly. He shows how desire can worsen or, with care, mitigate the heavy weight of disease. Writing from his own experience as a caretaker for his wife, Morris offers a unique perspective on the complex relationship between illness and human emotion. By examining the role of desire in illness, Eros and Illness provides a guide through the long night of illness, showing how to find productive desire where despair and defeat are expected.
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