![]() ![]() Our perception of the world we enter through illness-including too often a world of pain-is shaped by desire. Emotions, dreams, and stories-even romance and eroticism-shape our experiences as patients and as caregivers. Desire in its many guises plays a crucial part in illness, David Morris shows. When we face down illness, something beyond biomedicine’s extremely valuable advances in treatment and prevention is sorely needed. By exploring the role of desire in illness, Eros and Illness offers an alternative: an unconventional, deeply human exploration of what it means to live with, and live through, disease. The modern regime of hyper-logical biomedicine offers little solace when it comes to the effects of ill health on our inner lives. 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. ![]()
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