Taking care of the earth body: Using the metaphor of illness to approach environmental issues

Sandy Penn, Simon Fraser University Download this essay: Sandy Penn_nature culture “The Earth’s declining health is our most important concern, our very lives depending upon a healthy earth,” states Lovelock (2006) in his book, Revenge of Gaia.  Brian Handwerk[1] used the same metaphor in his article “The Earth’s Health in Sharp Decline, Massive Study Finds,”  [...]

What Barbaro Left Behind: the Celebrity Illness Narrative as Inspiration

Kathryn Levy Feldman, University of Pennsylvania I wrote this essay for a bioethics course I took in the celebrity illness narrative. It was part of my MLA course of study at Univ. of PA which culminated in a certificate in animal studies. I wrote my thesis on “Barbaro, the Making of a Hero.” I am [...]

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