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Glad this is the first comment.
What's shocking about it is he believes the false dichotomy of either pursue a healthy lifestyle or engage in modern medicine.
Why not both? Eat your veg, go for a run and have the MMR vaccine.
What's shocking about it is he believes the false dichotomy of either pursue a healthy lifestyle or engage in modern medicine.
Why not both? Eat your veg, go for a run and have the MMR vaccine.
I really enjoyed “The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine.”
About early surgery and the discovery and adoption of anti-septics.
About early surgery and the discovery and adoption of anti-septics.
The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants - Richard Gordon (1997) is amusingly light-hearted. The author is more famous for medical fiction.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010) is very interesting.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010) is very interesting.
Interesting topic aside:
What does the author mean by "sexual sublimation"? I can't be sure from context and google says 'sublimation' means phase change, but the referenced usage is 'before antibiotics' which would appear to be a constant state or phase prior to the change antibiotics would bring. Is my vocabulary lacking or is the author just doing a bit of word salad here?
What does the author mean by "sexual sublimation"? I can't be sure from context and google says 'sublimation' means phase change, but the referenced usage is 'before antibiotics' which would appear to be a constant state or phase prior to the change antibiotics would bring. Is my vocabulary lacking or is the author just doing a bit of word salad here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology)
Popularised as an idea by Freud, sublimation is the act of repressing and redirecting baser instincts into something "healthy" in the view of society -- often as a defence mechanisim.
Sexual sublimation is redirecting sexual energies and desires into other activites, usually identified as creative.
I am making no claims about the correctness of this, but it lives on in popular understandings of the mind.
Popularised as an idea by Freud, sublimation is the act of repressing and redirecting baser instincts into something "healthy" in the view of society -- often as a defence mechanisim.
Sexual sublimation is redirecting sexual energies and desires into other activites, usually identified as creative.
I am making no claims about the correctness of this, but it lives on in popular understandings of the mind.
Thank you!
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This is a pleasant fantasy people indulge in, but it is a fantasy: It's the notion that disease, by which I mean serious disease, only happens to people who "deserve it" in some sense, whether by dissipated and profligate lifestyle or having the poor sense to live in a clearly disreputable and dirty neighborhood. That might work in some cases, as when a smoker gets lung cancer, but there are plenty of diseases where the cause is quite beyond anyone's control and, possibly, not known at all. The obvious example is all genetic disorders, such as Type 1 Diabetes, which is invariably fatal untreated but can be managed very successfully with medical help, but there are also cancers of unknown origin, such as the one I had which is now in complete remission due to quite a lot of medical intervention, including CAR T-cell therapy.
So the author of the review has an ignorant, moralistic view of health, one which the books they've read have failed to shift. There is a lesson in there somewhere.