CURE Quote
Debates about the feminizing nature of needlework came to the fore during the First World War as it was prescribed to wounded soldiers returning from the front as a form of rehabilitative therapy. Medical and psychiatric authorities agreed that it could help restore physical dexterity, but more especially, soothe damaged nerves and minds. It had particular relevance to newly diagnosed conditions such as neurasthenia, or shell-shock, for which it was widely employed as a “rest cure”—as it had been in the treatment of “hysteria” in women since the nineteenth century.
— Johanna Amos & Lisa Binkley, Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts, 2019-
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Illegalicines: Illegal Cures
Have you ever been cured by an illegal medicine? I’m looking for stories. I know there are thousands of illegalicines, illegal medicines that can cure. Tell me your story. I have begun a study of illegalicines: illegal cures. I have … Continue reading
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Curanoias – Fear of Cures, Curing, and Cured
Modern medicine suffers from many different and severe cases of curanoia, fears of cures based on failures to understand cure. It’s not cure phobia, a phobia is an irrational fear without blame. Curanoia is easily and often rationalized and curers … Continue reading
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