{"id":111166,"date":"2017-05-24T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=111166"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:58:31","slug":"i-can-name-your-disease-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/24\/i-can-name-your-disease-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Name Your Disease, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111167\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/anna_katharina_emmerick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111167\" class=\"wp-image-111167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/anna_katharina_emmerick.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/anna_katharina_emmerick.jpg 2419w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/anna_katharina_emmerick-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/anna_katharina_emmerick-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/anna_katharina_emmerick-1024x840.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It\u2019s right on the tip of my tongue \u2026<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019ve always thought I would be good at naming diseases. The problem with most disease names is that they have all these scary words in them: <em>flu<\/em>, <em>disorder<\/em>, <em>virus<\/em>. That\u2019s bad for business. If I were in charge, I\u2019d name them after deodorants (Aqua Reef, Cool Burst, Sport) or Yankee Candles (Bahama Breeze, Vanilla Cupcake, Clean Cotton). But get this: It\u2019s not just one person naming all the world\u2019s diseases. It\u2019s a whole <em>committee <\/em>of international bureaucracies, which explains why so many of our world\u2019s most dangerous illnesses have such lousy titles. Laura Spinney writes on the winding, often fraught course through which a disease gets its name: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/disease-naming-must-change-to-avoid-scapegoating-and-politics\" target=\"_blank\">The Spanish flu stands as a monument to the ugly history of disease naming<\/a>. The world was at war in 1918, and the belligerent nations censored their press, not wanting to damage their populations\u2019 morale \u2026 The world came to see the disease as pulsing out from Spain, a belief that was encouraged by propagandists in other countries whom it suited to shift the blame. The naming of diseases has always been as much about politics and the human need to identify a scapegoat as it has been about accurately labeling a new threat to life. Periodic attempts have been made to remove the subjective from the process. Three United Nations agencies\u2014the World Health Organization (<small>WHO<\/small>), the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Organization for Animal Health\u2014play a particularly important role when it comes to infectious diseases, which don\u2019t respect borders. <small>WHO<\/small> hosts the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which has long assigned the final name to any human disease. And in 2015, <small>WHO<\/small> came up with an updated set of guidelines\u00a0for labeling infectious diseases, which account for the vast majority of threats to human life.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Thought experiment: Say a kind of distant friend of yours gives you a big statue of Karl Marx. Do you accept it? Should you be happy about it? What if Karl Marx is kind of a contentious figure for you because half your nation embraced Communism not long ago, with disastrous results? Didi Kirsten Tatlow writes on a minor controversy unfolding between China and Germany: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/21\/world\/asia\/china-trier-germany-marx-statue.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">For weeks, Chinese have been debating the meaning of a superhero-size\u00a0statue of Karl Marx\u00a0headed to Trier, the German town where the political philosopher was born<\/a>. An attempt to spread Communist revolution back to democratic Germany? A joke? The eighteen-foot work by the sculptor Wu Weishan\u00a0is a gift from the Chinese government and is to be unveiled next May as part of wider commemorations for the two hundredth anniversary of Marx\u2019s birth \u2026 This noble-looking Marx gazing into the future expresses \u2018the confidence of today\u2019s China in its own theories, path, system and culture,\u2019 Mr. Wu wrote in <em>People\u2019s Daily<\/em>, the party newspaper \u2026 Historians and politicians asked whether it was appropriate to honor so uncritically a man whose ideas led to dictatorship, including in the former East Germany. In April, Trier\u2019s City Council gave final approval to the gift but whittled down its size by more than two feet.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Foot on the history of the Giro d\u2019Italia, Italy\u2019s premier cycling event, once a golden opportunity for sportswriters: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/they-want-to-ride-their-bicycles\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Giro is an annual ritual, a sporting event which has meshed with politics, culture, society and geography over time<\/a>. It was also, especially in the early years, an event which explained Italy to the Italians. Before television and the Internet, journalists in particular used poetic license to describe \u2018the race\u2019 and the feats of its sporting heroes to their readers. This was a form of literature, largely detached from the actual details of the Giro. Crowds rarely saw much more than a glimpse of the cyclists as they pedaled past. They learned about what \u2018had happened\u2019 through the sporting, popular and quality press, but also thanks to word of mouth (and later radio). The power of cycling lay in its mystique, in the way it was narrated, framed and described by writers \u2026 We know every detail of every race today. Writers have lost their importance in covering these events. Cycling is now essentially a team sport, where every second is controlled and where there is little mystery.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maria Popova studies Emily Dickinson\u2019s herbarium, which \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2017\/05\/23\/emily-dickinson-herbarium\/\" target=\"_blank\">was a masterpiece of uncommon punctiliousness and poetic beauty<\/a>: 424 flowers from the Amherst region, which Dickinson celebrated as \u2018beautiful children of spring,\u2019 arranged with a remarkable sensitivity to scale and visual cadence across sixty-six pages in a large leather-bound album. Slim paper labels punctuate the specimens like enormous dashes inscribed with the names of the plants\u2014sometimes colloquial, sometimes Linnaean\u2014in Dickinson\u2019s elegant handwriting. What emerges is an elegy for time, composed with passionate patience, emanating the same wakefulness to sensuality and morality that marks Dickinson\u2019s poetry.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>David Campany on the photography of Mark Neville: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/photo-booth\/mark-nevilles-immersive-photo-experiment\" target=\"_blank\">At a time when the presence of a photographer\u2014particularly a white male photographer\u2014in a community that is not his own is cause for suspicion, Neville has continued to push hard to connect with new subjects and audiences<\/a>. His latest project is <em>Child\u2019s Play<\/em>, an endearing and startling look at the need for safe spaces for children to explore. Images of kids in Kenya and Ukraine are juxtaposed with pictures of their counterparts in the UK and the U.S. Each photo is a miniature stage play: a boy wraps himself in a rope, like a noose or a bandolier; girls in finery scrabble for candy; refugee children solemnly display their toys \u2026 Neville\u2019s approach to immersive social photography might be dismissed as merely earnest were the images not so compelling\u2014full of tenderness, intelligence, spontaneity, and all manner of illuminating details.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the art of disease naming, Emily Dickinson\u2019s herbarium, and 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