Of course, the nature of the afflictions required measures for the security of both the patients and their community.
The implication is that a father's realisation that he was the cause of his son's affliction might induce him to repent.
This 'affliction' is evident to all those affected, no special surveys or measurements are required.
A greater affliction is ' the apathy that derives from the lack of commitment to the civic public realm ' (p. 96).
In one final hyperbolic line, the narrator suggests that the upsidedown reversals caused by blues affliction are insurmountable.
A part of the reason for this is that lived disabilities are not accidental afflictions of people whose rational substance remains ever untouched.
In the first, individuals view their illness as temporary, a bounded time of bodily impairment or affliction.
To be tormented without a clear definition of the self is a distinctly modern affliction.
