Illness as an Ally with Philosopher Mark Pingree
CancerTalks Podcast
English - March 09, 2023 20:26 - 58 minutes - 135 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAlternative Health Health & Fitness Society & Culture Personal Journals healing health politics cancer journey spirit story transformation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Mark Pingree is a PhD candidate in comparative literature with a background in philosophy. Inspired by his experience with cancer, his research explores the possibility that illness and disability offer new ways of thinking about what it means to be human in the age of ecological collapse. He has taught college courses in philosophy, film and literature and is currently also in training to become a psychoanalyst. Mark lives in queens New York with his orange tabby named Phaedo.
The cover art for this episode is a photograph of the Mayak Power Plant in Russia. The surrounding area is one of the most radioactive regions of the world and, as you'll hear, plays an important element in Mark's cancer journey.
Mark’s Reading ListIllness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
Plutopia by Kate Brown
Notes from the Sick Room by Steve Finbow
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon
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