{"id":262168,"date":"2024-10-10T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T12:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/being-ill-review-a-sharp-interrogation-of-why-we-retreat-from-other-peoples-illnesses\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:54","slug":"being-ill-review-a-sharp-interrogation-of-why-we-retreat-from-other-peoples-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/being-ill-review-a-sharp-interrogation-of-why-we-retreat-from-other-peoples-illnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Ill review: A sharp interrogation of why we retreat from other people&#8217;s illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"GB. England. Bristol. 2021. Bristol Royal Infirmary. Martin Parr's cancer treatment. Chemotherapy transfusion.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/08104754\/SEI_224020375.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2451015\" data-caption=\"People who are very sick\u00a0can be reduced to their diagnoses by others\" data-credit=\"Martin Parr\/Magnum Photos\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">People who are very sick\u00a0can be reduced to their diagnoses by others<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Martin Parr\/Magnum Photos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reaktionbooks.co.uk\/work\/being-ill\">Being Ill<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion Books)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1979, when endocrinologist David Rabin was diagnosed with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, he understood only too well the pain ahead. What he didn\u2019t anticipate was the response from his medical colleagues at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Tennessee, who were deeply discomforted by his diagnosis to the point they started avoiding him. On one occasion, Rabin fell and a passing colleague pretended not to see him sprawled on the ground as they walked\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435120-400-a-sharp-interrogation-of-why-we-retreat-from-other-peoples-illnesses\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] People who are very sick\u00a0can be reduced to their diagnoses by others Martin Parr\/Magnum Photos Being IllNeil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion Books) In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}