Tag: George Orwell
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Starvation as metaphor
Michael Shulman Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States “Boy and Girl at Cahera” (1847) Image of the Great Famine for middle-class readers of London Illustrated News. The mystery of Food Increased till I abjured it And dine without Like God — Emily Dickinson Susan Sontag’s 1978 essay Illness as Metaphor,1 published in serial form in The…
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George Orwell and the ethics of dealing in or dealing with cigarettes
Lynn T. Kozlowski Buffalo, NY, United States Early in World War II, George Orwell wrote the essay “England, my England,” commenting that as he was writing “highly civilized human beings” were flying overhead trying to kill him: They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are…
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Connecting literature with medicine
Rubina Naqvi Karachi, Pakistan Portrait of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1898 Osip Braz Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow There is a need for increasing the education of medical students through the use of literature, so that physicians can become knowledgeable about and eager to confront the social, economic, and cultural contributors to illness. This is particularly important…