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,” [...]
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Taking care of the earth body: Using the metaphor of illness to approach environmental issues
Posted by editor on June 9, 2009
http://coastline.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/taking-care-of-the-earth-body-using-the-metaphor-of-illness-to-approach-environmental-issues/
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 [...]
Posted by editor on April 9, 2009
http://coastline.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/what-barbaro-left-behind-the-celebrity-illness-narrative-as-inspiration-2/
