Diagnosing, Resisting, Yielding – or How the Doctor Faces the Inevitable Tragedy
According to the 18th-century French doctor, François-Xavier Bichat, “la vie est l’ensemble des forces qui résistent à la mort” (“life consists in the sum of the functions that resist death”), in other words, life is by nature continuously resisting. More than one century later, the French poet Pau...
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Études Lawrenciennes
2021
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| Sažetak: | According to the 18th-century French doctor, François-Xavier Bichat, “la vie est l’ensemble des forces qui résistent à la mort” (“life consists in the sum of the functions that resist death”), in other words, life is by nature continuously resisting. More than one century later, the French poet Paul Valéry declared “Vous autres médecins, vous êtes les champions, les stratèges de la lutte de la vie individuelle contre la loi de la vie moyenne” (Valéry 52), by which he would seem to suggest th... |
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