ENGL 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Lancet, Sylvia Plath, Osteosarcoma
20 Feb 2016
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Lancet neurology says the movie"s more about love than cancer. Lancet oncology (about cancer) says the book puts the focus back on the person from the illness. Lancet magazine patient with osteosarcoma (zach sobieth) would have liked the movie and notes that the physicians ignore the person in favour of medicalization. It is an exquisite example of how the humanities can reach deeply into essential parts of medical education that the comparative objectivity of science cannot (trevor stammers, british journal of general practice review of book) They all like the line about depression being a side effect of dying but not of cancer, despite its medical inaccuracy. The book is full of figurative language. Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealor revelator": water and time (epigraph) The blessed van houten was making a rhetorical offer to meet, not an actual one, that such offers just be read symbolically (181)
