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" Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged,... "
Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature - Page 11
by Mary K. DeShazer - 2010 - 312 pages
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Virtue and Medicine: Explorations in the Character of Medicine, Volume 1

E.E. Shelp - Medical - 1985 - 394 pages
...will experience at some time the 'taxpaying dependent estate of patients'. As Susan Sontag puts it, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each...
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Depression in the Medically Ill: An Integrated Approach

Gary Rodin, John Craven, Christine Littlefield - Depression, Mental - 1991 - 440 pages
...Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation for their generous support of our work. / ix Introduction “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all preftr to use only the good passport, sooner or later each...
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On Nursing: A Literary Celebration : an Anthology

Margretta M. Styles, Patricia Moccia - Allied health personnel - 1993 - 376 pages
...more onerous citizenI ship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to...least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. Susan Sontag, illness as Metaphor, 1978 Libraries are filled with sections, volumes,...
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On Nursing: A Literary Celebration : an Anthology

Margretta M. Styles, Patricia Moccia - Allied health personnel - 1993 - 376 pages
...more onerous citizenI ship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to...least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1978 Libraries are filled with sections, volumes,...
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That Other Place: A Personal Account of Breast Cancer

Penelope Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 260 pages
...fellowship of our choosing but it is a bond that softens the pain of a journey in "that other place." Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous...holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each...
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Literature and Sickness

David Bevan - Diseases and literature - 1993 - 132 pages
...Shilts Reading Camus Reading a Plague (Steven G. Kellman) 105 ¿ii¿iñFñoinnutiiiii JOSS-ETL-QKX5 illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is bom holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(WYSTAN HUGH) AUDEN, (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet. "The Art of Healing," Collected Poems (1976). 2 Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous...holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each...
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The Limits of Medicine: How Science Shapes Our Hope for the Cure

Edward S. Golub - Medical - 1997 - 276 pages
...Diseases 205 Finale: Changing the Metaphor 224 Readings and Notes 227 Acknowledgments 245 Index 247 Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous...holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...193310933 The camera makes everyone a tourist In other people's reality; and eventually in one's own. 10934 illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous...holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and In the kingdom of the sick 10935 Instead of just recording reality; photographs have become the norm...
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Discovery & Reminiscence: Essays on the Poetry on Mona Van Duyn (p)

Michael Burns - American poetry - 1998 - 172 pages
...Van Duyn manages to reveal both the body's strengths and its frailties. Susan Sontag reminds 73 us, "Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous...holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick" (Sontag 3). When we write about the "kingdom of the sick," this version...
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