This essay challenges the common conception that biomedicine operates by separating the mind from the body, and by attending to the biological rather than spiritual. In actual practice, there are practical and strategic concerns that bring the spiritual into play. This is because, at least in the case of chronic illnesses, clinicians cannot simply fix bodies; they must create partnerships with...
southern coast of Brittany (fig. 1). In its fantastic configurations of grottoes, needles, and reefs formed by the incessant workings of the wind and waves, Belle-Ile offers as fine an example as any in France of that category of natural scenery that during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries came to be designated as the sublime. It is not the sublime forces and forms of...