Within the field of the health humanities, there has been a propensity to claim that medical expertise and lived experience equally contribute to our understanding of symptoms and the etiology of illness. Family memoirs, written by a parent or relative who is living with someone who has been diagnosed with an illness, offer a different…
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Laughter Part 2: Is It Safe To Laugh Yet?
James Belarde // “It seems to me that you can know a man by his laughter, and if from the first encounter you like the laughter of some completely unknown person, you may boldly say that he is a good man.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky, in Notes from A Dead House “A woolly mammoth and a saber-tooth…