Tag: fibromyalgia
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Knock, or The Triumph of Medicine
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden Louis Jouvet and André Dalibert in Knock, by Guy Lefranc (1951) “The man who feels well is actually sick and doesn’t know it.” —Dr. Knock Jules Romains (1885-1972), author of the play Knock, or the Triumph of Medicine, was a novelist, poet, essayist, playwright, and short story writer. He…
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Naming diseases
JMS Pearce Hull, United Kingdom I tried to unveil the stillness of existence through a counteracting murmur of words, and, above all, I confused things with their names: that is belief. — Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words Disease implies the converse of health, but even health itself is difficult to define. With the gifts…