Material Bodies

400 RüdigerKunow As documented above, unlike the successes against heart disease and stroke, the war on cancer, after almost for ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 401 more true in the case of cancer than of other diseases as Priscilla Wal ...

402 RüdigerKunow defying the laws of biology as they were then known, they did not die after a few days but continued to multipl ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 403 As Rebecca Skloot, after intensive research and interviews with people ...

404 RüdigerKunow see no doctors?" (qtd. in Skloot 11).^100 In this way, Lacks's biological make-up, her idiosyncratic cells, inv ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 405 comfort" (62), the softening illusions by which U.S. society and cultur ...

406 RüdigerKunow environmental awareness (Kissam Morris 171-73; Olson 51-52). The theoreticaldimensionofLorde'sencounterwithcanc ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 407 illnesssignifies,ismadevisible(ifonlytoalimiteddegree),notonlyin medica ...

408 RüdigerKunow autobiographical references: like Kostoglotov,^103 Solzhenitsyn himself had been sent to a labor camp; and like ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 409 But it seems Solzhenitsyn wants to have it two ways. While the narrativ ...

410 RüdigerKunow the current conditions (medical and socio-political) remains remote at best. And even though there are moments ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 411 matter of breaks and heterogeneities, of the multiple polysemia of the ...

412 RüdigerKunow at least initially, plausible terms for the description of many of the cancernarrativescirculatinginU.S.culture ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 413 Medicine," which I briefly referred to a moment ago.^108 Rita Charon, o ...

414 RüdigerKunow among them—which the Humanities have long cast aside as outdated and epistemologically dubious. Hayden White, h ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 415 cannot always be credibly maintained by the text. In an interview attac ...

416 RüdigerKunow young children, woke up with a headache. 'Not just any headache,' she would recall later, 'but a sort of numbne ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 417 book hold out the promise of a cure for cancer. In fact, it makes the o ...

418 RüdigerKunow from Sontag's list is the trope invoked at the beginning of this chapter, that of the "silent killer" or the "h ...

CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextoftheBody 419 which is almost always present in texts about cancer and the cancer exp ...