Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. What Is Eros? 1
4. Part One. The Contraries
5. Chapter 1. The Ambush: An Erotics of Illness 21
6. Chapter 2. Unforgetting Asklepios: Medical Eros and Its Lineage 49
7. Chapter 3. Not- Knowing: Medicine in the Dark 79
8. Part Two. The Stories
9. Chapter 4. Varieties of Erotic Experience: Five Illness Narratives 107
10. Chapter 5. Eros Modigliani: Assenting to Life 135
11. Chapter 6. The Infinite Faces of Pain: Eros and Ethics 162
12. Part Three. The Dilemmas
13. Chapter 7. Black Swan Syndrome: Probable Improbabilities 193
14. Chapter 8. Light as Environment: How Not to Love Nature 220
15. Chapter 9. The Spark of Life: Appearances / Disappearances 249
16. Conclusion. Altered States 279
17. Notes 303
18. Acknowledgments 335
19. Index 337