Jake Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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one of the things that struck me most in Frantz Fanon's psychiatric writings in the Alienation and Freedom volume is his suggestion that the folk belief in djinn possession had less stigma in Algeria than european psychiatric diagnosis

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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, a book on Ebola outbreaks and a couple close calls https://t.co/TDRYcGYgpu

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remembering back to my MA when I wrote a paper that asked "who freed the prisoner from Plato's allegory of the cave?" like I was going to solve some ancient detective story

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@Helenreflects Havi Carel also writes on this as "bodily doubt" in her Phenomenology of Illness

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reading @justin_garson's Madness and impressed by its "long overdue apologia for the magicians and purifiers", which I think is a nuanced and needed take

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starting to think that quoting Marx in my cover letters is too polarizing and risky but I still hope that "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" will resonate with someone

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RT @joelmreynolds: If you would like to pick up The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality for $13.77 (yup, seriously), just use…

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@DenkenAnalysis I think Matthew Ratcliffe's Feelings of Being does the best job of this

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@HaneMaung @unreliable_nrt -E M Cioran's work isn't explicitly phenomenology but has a lot of accounts of suffering -Saulius Geniusas' The Phenomenology of Pain (I've been meaning to pick it up, haven't read, saw him give a talk a decade ago that stuck with me) -Sartre's War Diaries' passage on eye strain

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reorganizing your books is all fun and games until you stumble across your copy of Walter Benjamin and have to obligingly re-read "Unpacking my Library"