Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: In the novel, A Little Life, a character elaborates on a biomedical theory for self mutilation based on the relief cutting provides to give a fuller sense of the personal experience.
According to the art: Through the story of four college friends over many years with one of them drawing most of the novel’s attention, the book provides poignant, breathtaking, and enlightening renderings of profound mental and psychological suffering resulting from abandonment, pedophilia, self-mutilation, rare neurological disease, and the futility health care systems generate for people who need them.
According to the art: Illich argues that health care as a social organization does more to hinder equality and opportunity for individuals than to improve the chances for them. He builds his argument around the concept of iatrogenesis (harm from health care), and discerns three forms of it: clinical, social, and cultural.