Tag: Starvation
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The Warsaw ghetto hunger study
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden A photo documenting clinical research on hunger performed by a group of Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. From Emil Apfelbaum (red.)… 1942, American Joint Distribution Committee. a photo between pages 20 and 21. Via Wikimedia. “The organism which is destroyed by prolonged hunger is like a candle…
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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…