Mobile homes in the land of illness: the hospitality and hostility of language in doctor-patient relations
Abstract Illness has a way of disorientating us, as if we are cast adrift in a foreign land.Like strangers in a dessert we seek oasis to recollect ourselves, find refuge and learn to build our own shelters.Using the philosophy of Levinas and Derrida, we can interpret health care providers (HCP), and the sites from which they act (e.g.hospitals), as