Disease: is a pathological process, most often physical as in throat infection, or cancer of the bronchus, sometimes undetermined in origin, as in schizophrenia. The quality which identifies disease is some deviation from a biological norm. There is an objectivity about disease which doctors are able to see, touch, measure, smell. Diseases are valued as the central facts in the medical view…

Illness: is a feeling, an experience of unhealth which is entirely personal, interior to the person of the patient. Often it accompanies disease, but the disease may be undeclared, as in the early stages of cancer or tuberculosis or diabetes.

باختصار
Illness is what the patient experiences, while disease is the scientific explanation of what's happening.

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The idea must be accepted that the disease of the sick man is not the anatomical disease of the doctor. A stone in an atrophic gall bladder can fail to give symptoms for years and consequently create no disease, although there is a state of pathological anatomy .... Under the same anatomical appearances one is sick and one isn’t .... The difficulty must no longer be conjured away by simply saying that there are silent and masked forms of disease: these are nothing but mere words. The lesion is not enough perhaps to make the clinical disease the disease of the sick man, for this disease is something other than the disease of the anatomical pathologist

- René Leriche

"مَرَضُ الرجلِ العليل ليس نفسَه المرضَ التشريحي للطبيب."

Bot:
تعقيبًا على آخر موضوع بالقناة
اتذكرت مقولة لأحد أستاذتنا من يگول :
"Treat the patient, not the radiograph"

Medicine deals mainly with the patient, and not with biological problems (disease) in the strict sense, because a disease does not affect the patient only on the biological level. From the patient's perspective, it's an "illness," and it affects them on social, psychological, and financial levels. In other words, it's an existential problem, because it poisons the very existence of the patient.

That's why medicine, by dealing with both the patient's biological disease and existential illness, is also intertwined with all kinds of scientific, social, ethical, psychological, and even philosophical matters.

The origin of the book is obscure. We may think of the cathedrals, miscalled Gothic, that are the works of generations of men. But there is an essential difference: the artisans and craftsmen of the cathedrals knew what they were making. In contrast, The Thousand and One Nights appears in a mysterious way. It is the work of thousands of authors, and none of them knew that he was helping to construct this illustrious book, one of the most illustrious books in all literature (and one more appreciated in the West than in the East, so they tell me).

We know that chronology and history exist, but they are primarily Western discoveries. There are no Persian histories of literature or Indian histories of philosophy, nor are there Chinese histories of Chinese literature, because they are not interested in the succession of facts. They believe that literature and poetry are eternal processes. I think they are basically right.

The Thousand and One Nights is not something which has died. It is a book so vast that it is not necessary to have read it, for it is a part of our memory, and also, now, a part of tonight.

أصولُ الكتاب [ألف ليلة وليلة] مُبهَمة. ربما يجعلنا هذا نفكّر بالكاتدرائيات، المسماة خطأً بالقوطية، التي بُنِيَت بجهودِ أجيالٍ متعاقبةٌ من الناس. لكنّ هناك اختلافٌ جوهري: الحِرَفيّون الذين بنوا الكاتدرائيات كانوا يعرفون ما يصنعون. بالمقابل، فإنّ ألفَ ليلةٍ وليلة يظهر بطريقة غامضة. فهو عملٌ أبدَعَهُ آلاف الكُتّاب من غير أنْ يعلَمَ أحدٌ منهم أنّه كان يُساعدُ بتأليف كتابٍ لامعٍ يُعَدُّ من أفضلِ الكتب في كُلِّ الأدب (والذي يحظى بتقديرٍ أكبر في الغرب مما في الشرق، كما قيلَ لي).

ألفُ ليلةٍ وليلة ليسَ شيئًا قد مَضَى ومات. بل هو كتابٌ واسعٌ جدًا لدرجةِ أنّه ليس ضروريًا أنْ تكونَ قد قرأتَه، لأنّه جزءٌ من ذاكرتنا، والآن، هو جزءٌ من الليلة.

من يجيني واحد يكلي "اني سومري وجدّي كلكامش"

The state takes the place of God

- Carl Jung

The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good—anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name ‘leaders’ for those who were once ‘rulers.’ We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, ‘Mind your own business.’ Our whole lives are their business.

- C. S. Lewis