Is My Body My Property?

Between My Body and My "Dead Body": Narratives of Coma.

This article is based on narrative research that focuses on corporeal experience during coma and during the rehabilitation process. Seventeen participants from different areas of Israel who had been in various kinds of coma states reveal what the corporeal experience of coma is. The participants are divided into three types of narrative protagonists--"dead-alive," "rational," and "emissaries." ...

Strangers in My Body

There is a bizarre piece of medical hypocrisy : in the preface, the names and qualifications of the doctors concerned are splendidly rolled out. In the text, however, they are given pseudonyms, " in the best and most scrupulous tradition of the medical profession Both men must be a shade too gentle since they left their patient at large after she had attempted to strangle her daughter. Surprisi...

painting and essay competition: my city, my neighborhood

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O-23: "Caring My Family Integrity"

My Name Is Nobody

S weet wine, unblended, served Odysseus well in the escape with his companions from the Cyclops' cave during his epic return to Ithaca. The wine, a gift from Maron, grandson of Dionysus, was exceptional. " When he drank it he mixed twenty parts of water to one of wine, and yet the fragrance from the mixing bowl was so exquisite that it was impossible to refrain from drinking. " Odysseus carried...