Thnaks, Marta. My recollection of the book is dim, but what I remember from it is a useful dissection of the use of metaphors _of_ sickness in other contexts where a medical model is not appropriate, But it has been a long time since I read it. jks
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>Justin Schwartz10/17/01 10:52 AMjkschw at hotmail.com
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> She wrote a book
> > I liked called Illness as Metaphor, Marta might have something to say
>about
> > that.
>
>
>I've only glanced at that book. It did not impress me. Seemed to be about
>what Wilhelm Reich refers to as "bio-energetic shrinking" -- a person
>becomes "less" when they acquire a sickness. I don't have much interest in
>psychological or phenomena-based writing about illness. It just doesn't
>seem to have much value for the disabled peoples emancipation. Since I
>haven't read it I can only say, if she pointed out how awful the standard
>literary metaphors related to illness are, that would be of some value.
>I'm
>not sure she would get that far though Lennard Davis does a great job of
>dissecting Joseph Conrad on his conformity of language and thought when it
>comes to the "normalcy" of the body.
>
>Marta
>
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