illness (n.) is an already existent dual-citizenship where we constantly resist going to the 'kingdom of the sick' with its attendant pain and shame.

Susan Sontag on Illness

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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. Friedrich Nietzsche

Spirit is impervious to illness. Marianne Williamson

is not just bodily --- sickly body, sickly mind.

is self-revealing --- Illness tells us what we are.

is best remedied by a tincture of patience.

Patience is the best remedy that is for a sick man, the most precious plaster that is for any wound.

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is an already existent dual-citizenship where we constantly resist going to the 'kingdom of the sick' with its attendant pain and shame.

Sontag defines illness as an already existent dual-citizenship where we constantly resist going to the 'kingdom of the sick' with its attendant pain and shame.' (net)

is not just about suffering the loss of physical and/or mental integrity. To be ill is to inhabit a state of unbelonging, to be pushed to the margins, shamed, silenced.

short bouts of illness oblige all of us 'at least for a spell, to identity ourselves as citizens of that other place' (3) To be ill for Sontag, then, is not simply to suffer the loss of physical and/or mental integrity... it is also to inhabit a state of unbelonging, in the margins, on the outside.

is often associated wily-nily with the idea that one had somehow brought it on themselves.

She notes the peculiar reversal that 'With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer), the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease-because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.' Sontag says that the clearest and most truthful way of thinking about diseases is without recourse to metaphor.' (WIKI)

is often seen as a test of moral character.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

is often used as a metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

is overlaid with psychological theories that serve as a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill by essentially telling them that they have, unwittingly, caused their own disease and thus that they deserve it.

Psychological theories of illness are a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill. Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have deserved it.' Susan Sontag

is often identified with evil and blame is attached to its victims.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.

*An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

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