Wasserstein Alan G
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Ann Intern Med. 2007 Jun 5;146(11):809-13. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-146-11-200706050-00009.
Michel de Montaigne, the great French humanist and inventor of the personal essay, suffered from frequent and severe renal colic. He wrote about his illness in his travel journal and in his last and greatest essay, "Of Experience." In his illness narratives, Montaigne integrated disease and suffering into his life and art. He humanized rather than conquered his disease. A mature humanism replaced his youthful Stoic philosophy of detachment and disengagement and provides a worthy model for our own medical humanism.
米歇尔·德·蒙田，这位伟大的法国人文主义者及个人随笔的开创者，饱受频繁且剧烈的肾绞痛折磨。他在旅行日记以及其最后也是最为杰出的随笔《论经验》中记述了自己的病情。在他关于疾病的叙述中，蒙田将疾病与痛苦融入了他的生活与艺术。他使疾病人性化而非试图征服它。一种成熟的人文主义取代了他年轻时那种超脱与疏离的斯多葛哲学，为我们当下的医学人文主义提供了一个值得借鉴的典范。
