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An Anatomy of Illness

Journal of Medical Humanities 33 (1):41-54 (2012)

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The Nature of Suffering.Eric J. Cassell - 1991 - In The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine. New York: Oxford University Press.details This chapter discusses suffering and the nature of suffering, which has been given little attention despite the fact that physicians are obligated to relieve human suffering. The majority of the chapter is spent discussing three main points: suffering is experienced by persons, suffering occurs when the impending destruction of a person is perceived, and suffering can occur in relation to any aspect of a person. The author presents a very simple topography of a person that may help in understanding both (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
The wounded storyteller: body, illness, and ethics.Arthur W. Frank - 1995 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.details In At the Will of the Body , Arthur Frank told the story of his own illnesses, heart attack and cancer. That book ended by describing the existence of a "remission society," whose members all live with some form of illness or disability. The Wounded Storyteller is their collective portrait. Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine they are wounded storytellers. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering when they turn their diseases into (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 212 citations
The Loss of Wholeness. [REVIEW]S. Kay Toombs - 2012 - Hastings Center Report 23 (6):41-42.details Book reviewed in this article: The Meaning of Illness. By S. Kay Toombs. Download Export citation Bookmark 129 citations
The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason.Mark Johnson - 1987 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.details "There are books—few and far between—which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."—Yaakov Garb, _San Francisco Chronicle_. Download Export citation Bookmark 420 citations
The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason.Mark Johnson - 1987 - The Personalist Forum 5 (1):58-60.details Download Export citation Bookmark 405 citations

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