Micro Project Book - Illness: Eternal Abstractness

Illness: Eternal Abstractness discusses disease as one facet of life. Just as the standard of health
continues to change with the times, the standard regarding disease must also change. This book
contains various literary works from the epic poetry of ancient Greece to the modern poetry of
Korea, and follows the history of human disease.

The authors suggest that the diagnosis of one's body and condition should be made solely by
one's self-decisions—not by medical technology and media myths. To put it another way, we
ourselves should be holding responsibilities for our own lives and welfare when it comes to
the pain we suffer from our diseases. We all become 'disease-bearers' when we are obsessed
with the high standards on health, which are imposed by the mass media. Only by knowing how
to think right about our pain and their extraordinary nature, will we eventually be able to escape
from the dangers created by the abstract world of disease.



Introduction: Do we all have diseases?                                                                            8

Sybil and Struldbrugs / Someone, please call my name / Status as a potential patient

Chapter 1 - The Face of Janus                                                                                      28

Sin and punishment / Intended interpretation

Chapter 2 - The thing that happened to her                                                                    46

Brave new world / Wing Biddlebaum's hand / Intervention of the law, and personal choices

Chapter 3 - A body like a jigsaw puzzle                                                                          72

Mother; a woman / The world of silence

Chapter 4 - Lock down the city                                                                                     93

Talking, talking, talking / Fable of the blind

Chapter 5 - Cholera and Lovesickness                                                                            123

The law of an old age

Chapter 6 – Abracadabra                                                                                             138

Raw or not?!

Chapter 7 - The Mobius Strip                                                                                        155

Distrust and blind faith