... features of the patient's history of present illness, with particular attention to the “end” and “point” of the patient's story and to the patient's own sense of what constitutes health. Discernment of the ends of moral action is the key feature of Aristotle's ethical category of phronesis or “practical...

...Lynne Angus; Jeffery Scott Mio Angus and her colleagues have examined the importance of metaphor and narratives in their patients' lives, particularly the expression of emotion-laden metaphors by patients who have received serious psychological or physical illness diagnoses. What seems...

... Modalities and Generic Categorization .” Style 34.2 ( 2000 ): 274 - 292 . Frank Arthur W. “ Reclaiming an Orphan Genre: The First-person Narrative of Illness .” Literature and Medicine 13.1 ( 1994 ): 1 - 21 . Gilbert Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic...

...Martha Stoddard Holmes Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors critique the use of metaphoric language, particularly military metaphors of invasion and battle, to describe illness experiences. Metaphors generate explanatory narratives, just as stories often use a resonant...

...Marilyn McEntyre This article considers the value of narrative poetry for stories of illness, a form that holds the facts of those stories in creative tension between extension and compression, elaboration and implication, chronological time and the timeless moment. Narrative and metaphor converge...

... the development of the clinical bond or relationship necessary for the physician to help the patient deal with his or her illness. Such a conduit for healing permits the repair or reconstitution of the broken story of illness, clarifying the meaning of illness for that particular patient. These clinical...

...Benjamin Mangrum Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out , disputes the manner in which its characters appropriate literary texts for their political interests. Woolf delivers this challenge through Rachel Vinrace's ill-fated voyage, which culminates in a series of disorienting encounters...

... reveal a peripatetic ethics that serves as a formal alternative to both the values of cynical self-interest and of a generic tradition of beatus ille poetic images associated with narratives of ethical retirement. The two novels produce a drama in which genres vie with genres; modes of storytelling...

... and scholars from several disciplinary perspectives working on medical discourse who are willing to observe the fields of health, illness, and medicine through both the lens of narrative and the lens of metaphor, thereby gaining, it is hoped, a more three-dimensional view. This issue includes articles...

... finally suggests that familial reconstruction and moral collectivity can counter society's ills. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Oklahoma 2024 Charles Dickens Oliver Twist melodrama Victorian theater In November 1868, Charles Dickens invited fifty...

... about Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor . Technically, this manifesto about the pitfalls of using metaphor to describe illness starts with—well, some metaphors. “Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship,” Sontag ( 2001 : 3) writes. “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship...

... sweets in sours and filter happiness from indisposition, compensating in some way for the loss of health. Su Dong- po wrote that “there’s a silver lining of having some leisure in illness; there’s no better prescription than restful relaxation.” Wang Danli (1636 recorded...

... organizations. Encompassing a wide range of activities aimed at improving health and well- being, it is defined as the science and art of promot- ing and protecting health and well- being, preventing ill health, and prolonging life through the organized efforts of society; it comprises the three domains...

... associated with straying too far from the exigen- cies of everyday practice and the “thickness” of the particular. My focus will be on a situation surrounding a family whose child was critically ill from the time of her birth — living nearly all of her twenty-two months in a neonatal intensive care...

... . Sauvageau Guy Keith Humphries R. . 2010 . “The Blood Stem Cell Holy Grail?” Science 329 : 1291 – 92 . Sontag Susan . 1978 . Illness as Metaphor . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Thompson Larry . 1988 . “Mapping the Human Genes: Is the Mega-Project Politically...

... with houses, palaces, mosques, markets, and bathhouses. The city’s immediate and comprehensive construction suggests that al-­Mahdi had intended to stay there for the long term (al-­Jirafi 1987, 242). But in 1110/1698 – 99, after less than a decade of residence there, the imam became so ill that he...

... his conflicted feelings for Blake. The song is sung by two lovers, Antonia and Hoffman, upon reuniting; however, their feelings of joy and passion are tempered by Antonia’s ill health. Similarly, Ted’s love and sexual passion for Blake are affected by Blake’s drug use. Furthermore, the rising...

... in conventions occurs when the narrator, hid- ing in the attic of her grandmother's house and herself ill, learns of her grand- mother's own illness: In the midst of my illness, grandmother broke down under the weight of anxi- ety and toil. The idea of losing her, who had always been my best...

... desig- nates literally, "homesickness." From the Greek nostos (return) and algia (ill- ness), the term signifies a compulsion to return home, to the beginning, to the 6In The Archaeology of Knowledge Michel Foucault defines the archive in terms that draw atten- tion to the archive...

.... The narrator-protagonist defensively positions herself, as well-regulated aristocratic Englishwoman, against class and culture inferiors, characterized by excessive and ill-restrained physicality Maud's narration figures as bestial. Yet Maud finds herself unintentionally aligned with the cultural Otherness she...