Humanity and continuity

Roland Barthes, the French literary theorist, philosopher and semiotician, died in 1980. His last book, written shortly before he died, is a meditation both on photography and on the loss of his mother who had died three years earlier. He writes: In this paper, I want to argue that our task, as general practitioners, is to follow Barthes and interrogate the issue of continuity of care in relation to love and death and that, if we do so, we must move beyond the reductionist findings of biomedical science. This position is supported by the English writer, George Steiner, who argues that the…

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