“What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.” NeedsSchoolLanguageProcessLosesTeachInformationHugeDiseaseEmpathySightPatientMedicalPreservesCynicismVolumeReplacedMedical School Author:Abraham Verghese
“Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.” IfsWayHas BeensPoliticalLanguageCausesMoralClearDiseaseMajorityAidsAnalysisAttributesConspiracyWrathMedievalCiaEpidemicsRecyclingLeftistsUltrasWrath Of GodMicroorganisms Author:Dennis Altman
“Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.” MenMindWarLanguageGroupsDiseaseWeaponsTerritorySlogansEpidemicsSusceptibleInfectious Diseases Author:Arthur Koestler
“The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life. Inna Segal offers invaluable insights into the underlying causes of illness and disease and provides practical advice which will undoubtedly empower many to self-heal. So read on and learn from the wisdom of this book, which can guide you to the life you were truly meant to live.” BookSelfStatesBodyLanguageCausesSecretAdviceOffersEssentialsDiseaseIllnessInsightGuidesYour BodyPracticalsHealEmpoweringInvaluable Author:Bernie Siegel
“We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible. To have the same diseases. Rats spread plague like us, but we are just as contagious as them. And the dogs get diabetes, like we do, and get cancer, like us. And age, like us. And die, like us. Why then the biblical claim that man is the king of creation? Perhaps because only man has developed spoken language, the words, wherein lies its prodigious ability to lie.” MenAgeLyingDiesLanguageAbilityDogCreationKingsDiseaseCatClaimsCancerSpreadCowsBiblicalRatsPlagueContagiousDiabetesMammalsProdigiousSpoken Language Author:Fernando Vallejo
“When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.” SufferingPoliticsLanguageDogRepublicanDiseaseHotBullsRogerPatentsHot DogWatergateHyperbole Author:Anna Quindlen
“Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.” PeopleShouldLanguageCivilizationDiseaseForgottenEnglish LanguageEnglishmenIncurable Disease Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.” WorldHelpingMovingLanguageGrowsStreetsCrimeDiseasePicksAppreciateThirdsIndiaCloudsLiftsParisBrownImmigrantsLos AngelesStakesToxicMultipleThird WorldImportsCalcuttaIlliteracyBombayStranglingQuagmireStreets Of Paris Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.” WorldBodyTogetherCultureLanguagePiecesThis WorldBrokenDiseaseSickDictatorshipGrotesque Author:Kim Hyesoon
“The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.” WorldLittlesHandsLanguageFictionDarknessExampleDramaDrugDiseaseAddAddictionCurrentsObviousCynicalNeuroticBrutalityDrug AddictionWearinessDrug AddictDiscordDrearyDementiaDysfunction Author:Tom Robbins
“Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.” MindPersonsCharacterBodyFormLanguageExistenceDiseasePerceptionDoctorsReactionsEntityUnitsTangible Book:The Camera My Mother Gave Me Source: The Camera My Mother Gave Me
“He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.” WayLanguageDiseasePicksPlagueSailorSyphilis Author:Salman Rushdie
“We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.” KnowsWarLanguageDiseaseEarsMurderMajorityKillingMusicalIndianImmigrantsSurvivingEnglish LanguageReplacementsAdoptingPressuredEnglish Speaking Author:Jared Diamond
“There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.” WisdomUsedSpiritLanguageCausesEasyDiseaseInsightSpreadGood Faith Author:Densey Clyne