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  1. Sep 2022
    1. eopardizes one's love life

      Sadly I remember seeing this one statistic where men are more likely to leave women when they have cancer (or breast cancer specifically).

    2. if not literally, contagious.

      Throughout history this type of behavior against diseases like with cancer has been evident. One of good example's of this would be AIDS's epidemic in 1980's where people effected with the disease where ostrasized and outcasted. Other people feared that they may catch the disease by simply being near the effected persons. Despite it not being the case. Because the majority of infected people happened to be LGBTQ+ huge amount of homophobia insued.

    3. metaphoric thinking.

      In addition to my previous annotation, one can interpret this as the authors goal is to through her work make people more comfortable with the idea of death. And accept death and illness as a natural part of life.

    4. metaphoric thinking

      I assume it means to not invalidate the experiencess of people struggling with the illness. To not take her words as a simple metaphor but how the patients actually feel and experience.

    5. a surpris-ingly large number of people with cancer find them-selves being shunned by relatives and friends and arethe object of practices of decontamination by mem-bers of their household, as if cancer, like TB, were aninfectious disease

      My only thought about this behaviour could be because people believe what they hear/see from the media, random sites and not actual legitimate facts, scientific articles etc., that prove otherwise. They haven't taken the time to look at all the facts they are given to them and form an opinion of their own and prefer believing everyone else.

    6. myths

      IT COMES WITH ANYTHING HUMANITY CANNOT DEAL WITH OR EXPLAIN

    7. cancer =death.

      Τoday the equation has changed, cancer in specific parts of the body equals death.

    8. the poor and the rich bothget TB and cancer;

      a proof that illness is something that just happens regardless of social distinctions

    9. in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of thesick

      Discrimination which later create the belief tha necessarily will be part in the kingdom of sick

    10. the night-side of life

      Many times situations that we face like an illness lead us to a brighter side of life cause through the procedure we acquire wisdom and knowledge

    11. doctors consider that the truthwill be intolerable to all but exceptionally mature andintelligent patients.

      intelligence does not change the way people react when learning that they suffer from a lethal disease, both of these patients can feel fear and can understand their situation if educated accordingly by doctors. I believe that by refusing to speak about taboo topics in general, only reinforces the stigma

    12. As long as a particular disease is treated asan evil, invincible predator, not just a disease, mostpeople with cancer will indeed be demoralized bylearning what disease they have

      Similarly, this prejudice also affects people who suffer from mental disorders, such as depression, schizophrenia, or addictions to substances, and are frowned upon by modern societies. As a result, many of them avoid acknowledging their symptoms, in fear of being stigmatised.

    13. find them-selves being shunned by relatives and friends and arethe object of practices of decontamination by mem-bers of their household, as if cancer, like TB, were aninfectious disease

      Possibly due to lack of education, or misinformation about illnesses like cancer, people tend to rely on their instinctive fear of something that they cannot control

    14. . For as long as itscause was not understood and the ministrations ofdoctors remained so ineffective, TB was thought to bean insidious, implacable theft of a life. Now it is can-cer's turn to be the disease that doesn't knock before itenters, cancer that fills the role of an illness experi-enced as a ruthless, secret invasion—a role it will keepuntil, one day, its etiology becomes as clear and itstreatment as effective as those of TB have become

      here we can see that even though medicine has advanced since TB, and continues advancing in a rapid pace, humanity has to face new challenges and evolve

    15. sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for aspell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that otherplace.

      illnesses in some way connect us humans with one another around the world, reminding us that we are all equally vulnerable when it comes to life and death situations