“His Own Doctor” ——On the Humanistic Spirit of Taiwan Poet's Disease Writing

Kuei-Yun Lee

doi:10.12906/9781682025239_006

Deleuze's concept of "cultural doctor" holds that writers who write about their own diseases are not patients, but physicians, their own physicians and doctors of the world. Druze equates literature with medicine, whose function is to diagnose and treat diseases that are regarded as a suspension in the course of life. In discussing the disease writing of contemporary Taiwanese poets, we can find several representative poets such as Shi Ming-Zheng, Lin Fan, Lin Yue, Chen Li and Luo Ye, etc. all of whom in their poems try to change the fractured world view and personal appearance caused by disease, so that the meaning of literature is equivalent to regenerative function, echoing the concept of "his own doctor". The poetry equip with excellent creativity to develop new disease history and life value while retelling the illness experience and self-treatment. In recent years, Taiwan's medical profession has emphasized "medical humanities", that is to consider medicine the subject, and humanistic care and humanistic literacy as the combining interdisciplinary. This paper expects to complement the perspective of "human medicine" and strengthen the subjectivity of human (literature) through the literary research. As well to observe how poets reinterpret the medical relationship among disease knowledge, illness experience and the coexistence with disease.Beyond the medicine, another “doctor”.