Medicine and the Body by Simon Williams

Author:Simon Williams [Williams, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical, Internal Medicine, Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9780761956396
Google: fvZP9fv1Za8C
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2003-04-21T05:36:43+00:00

the ultimate meaning of staving off the danger of dying of cause A is the increase in probability that my death, when it comes, will be described by cause B,C . . . Z. ‘I do not want to die’ always translates, in its pragmatic conclusions, into ‘I would rather die of that rather than this’. As the ‘that’ cannot be exhausted, the truth of this translation must not be admitted into consciousness, and this requires that survival effort scores ever new successes. Survival needs constant reassurance; and the only convincing reassurance is the death of others: not me. (1992b: 10)

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