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Beidler, Paul Gorman
Literature and Medicine, 09/2000, Volume: 19, Issue: 2Journal Article, Book Review
... Otis discusses Thomas Mann, not a physician, whose Death in Venice "mocks the very assumption that internal drives or foreign peoples can be controlled or excluded from one's definition of 'self'" (p. 162). In her conclusion, subtitled "Identity in the Age of AIDS," Otis proposes that we "abandon our anachronistic notions of boundaries, so that we may begin to build a new concept of identity upon the connections we once struggled to deny" and "that we begin to reconstruct our identities in a manner more appropriate to an era of retroviruses and global communications" (p. 173).
