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‘The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth’, don’t you think?

July 17, 2025

Do poets revel in the ways and means of attaining health? The Royal College of Surgeons’ Sarah Gillam, in a piece published in 2019 points us to the fact that Keats spent his years as a student rather dissolutely and ‘unhealthily’ by the standards of maintaining optimal lasting health, even then: Keats apparently enjoyed his … More ‘The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth’, don’t you think?

The illusion of control

July 27, 2023

What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? The idea that health is JUST an individual one is a relatively new one culturally and socially, although it’s roots lie in the Robinsonades, as Marx called the genre including Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’, of eighteenth century ‘enlightment’ and free market thinking. The idea has … More The illusion of control