- Introduction: What Is Eros?
- I. The Contraries
- 1. The Ambush: An Erotics of Illness
- 2. Unforgetting Asklepios: Medical Eros and Its Lineage
- 3. Not-Knowing: Medicine in the Dark
- II. The Stories
- 4. Varieties of Erotic Experience: Five Illness Narratives
- 5. Eros Modigliani: Assenting to Life
- 6. The Infinite Faces of Pain: Eros and Ethics
- III. The Dilemmas
- 7. Black Swan Syndrome: Probable Improbabilities
- 8. Light as Environment: How Not to Love Nature
- 9. The Spark of Life: Appearances / Disappearances
- Conclusion: Altered States
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Eros and Illness
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ISBN 9780674659711
Publication Date: 02/27/2017
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