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If chemo fails, there's always positive thinking, or so we'd like to believe. Medical historian Anne Harrington looks at our persistent faith in curing ourselves.
  • agree with others.

    This Medical historian falls into the trap that historians tend to fall into: that is cold-playing the individual's aspirations, relegating the notion of the soul to the status of cheap atavism, and suggesting that people who accept 20-20 hindsight reality are the alpha males and females and society. Oh, and everyone else is a rebellious loser.