| #843229 in Books | Morris David B | 2017-02-27 | Original language:English | 9.50 x6.50 x1.25l, | File Name: 0674659716 | 368 pages | Eros and Illness
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| excellent and moving|By Customer|David Morris has written a scholarly book which is at the same time a gift to the curious reader . Morris , an Emeritus professor of English at the University of Virginia, has a premise that even in the most grievous of times the people involved can experience sorrow but also desire , passion, and creativity all of which he defines as EROS.||Eros and Illness lends authority and vision to the very private experiences of personal pain and illness. As his wife Ruth succumbs to an aggressive early form of dementia, David Morris ‘corrects’ what he thinks he knows about pain and suff
Susan Sontag once described illness as “the night-side of life.” When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into darkness and disarray, our routines are interrupted, our deepest beliefs shaken. The modern regime of hyper-logical biomedicine offers little solace when it comes to the effects of ill health on our inner lives. By exploring the role of desire in illness, Eros and Illness offers an alternative: an unconventional, deeply huma...
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