To Protect or to Negate?Community in An Enemy of the People and The Normal Heart
學年 104
學期 1
發表日期 2015-10-02
作品名稱 To Protect or to Negate?Community in An Enemy of the People and The Normal Heart
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著者 黃仕宜
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會議名稱 2015年「生命倫理與醫學人文」研討會︰身體、心理與疾病書寫
會議地點 高雄醫學大學, 高雄, 台灣
摘要 Comparing Henrik Ibsen’s (1828-1906) An Enemy of the People (1882) and Larry Kramer’s (b.1935) The Normal Heart (1985), the paper draws on Roberto Esposito’s ideas of communitas and immunitas to explore notions of “community” in modern (late nineteenth century) and postmodern (late twentieth century) senses in light of medical and social responses to two diseases depicted in these respective works: Syphilis and AIDS. The striking resemblance between the plot lines and the specific diseases each story speaks to foregrounds the dialogism not only of the correlation between self (communal/biological collectives) and the other (pollution, disease), but that of disparate epistemological spheres. What validates degrading Enemy as an example of badly didactic bigotry is Ibsen’s erroneous medical knowledge (on syphilis) and, on top of all, the idea that the illness-enemy association is only a metaphor. In other words, it is not modern to fuse medicine and morality; human behaviors would not in any way change its biological entity. Such an epistemological stance yet becomes questionable one hundred years later: the AIDS epidemic brings to the fore the degree to which an outbreak may present moral issues. In light of this, the paper discusses the role morality play in human’s endless pursuit of (medical) knowledge (truth).
關鍵字 An Enemy of the People;The Normal Heart;syphilis;AIDS;community
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會議性質 國內
校內研討會地點 無
研討會時間 20151002~20151002
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出處 2015「生命倫理與醫學人文」研討會︰身體、心理與疾病書寫」
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