My Body Politic: A Memoir

Alcohol harm: beyond the body to the body politic.

In light of the World Health Organization's declaration that non-dependent drinking contributes more to the global burden of alcohol-related disease than does drinking by those who meet diagnostic criteria for dependence, this paper argues that clinicians, researchers and decision-makers need to consider microsocial and macrosocial impacts of alcohol use, not just addiction and clinical effects...

The genetics of politics: Body politic | The Economist

Identity Notes Part II: Redeeming the Body Politic

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...