{"id":196,"date":"2012-06-04T19:06:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?p=196"},"modified":"2012-06-13T02:29:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T02:29:38","slug":"prescriptions-medicine-and-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/prescriptions-medicine-and-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescriptions: Medicine and Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This essay studies two important theoretical terms that relate both to medicine and literature: (1) Derrida&#8217;s <em>pharmakon<\/em>, which is both a poison and a cure, and which also stands in for writing itself; (2) semiotics, which is now typically understood as a literary theoretical term, but was once a medical term, describing the science of interpreting signs. The essay attempts to use these insights to help understand the cultural represention of modern diseases like AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prescriptions: Medicine and Literature.&#8221; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Mosaic<\/span> 33.4 (December 2000) 179-92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay studies two important theoretical terms that relate both to medicine and literature: (1) Derrida&#8217;s pharmakon, which is both a poison and a cure, and which also stands in for writing itself; (2) semiotics, which is now typically understood &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/prescriptions-medicine-and-literature\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prescriptions: Medicine and Literature<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4349,12130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-published-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}