Why Doctors Like Me Need to Read Chronic Illness Memoirs
It's important for us to listen to patients' stories, even the ones where we don't come off looking very good
It's important for us to listen to patients' stories, even the ones where we don't come off looking very good
These real stories illuminate the challenges of living with chronic illness and the fight for access and recognition
“Some Of Us Just Fall” examines the body as an ecosystem and rejects the myth of curability
Wouldn’t it be a relief if we could stop asking authors to meet a specific set of diagnostic criteria?
Leanne Toshiko Simpson recommends novel and memoirs that show what it's like to live with a mental illness
In this locker room, in this strange place, the sun came out and the air was okay to breathe again
My ancestors were the good whites, or at least that’s what I’ve always wanted to believe
Jacqueline Alnes’ book "The Fruit Cure" delves into online wellness culture, and the power of stories we inherit—and tell ourselves—about our bodies
“Young at the Time” by Eileen Chang, translated by Karen S Kingsbury and Jie Zhang, and recommended by Karen S Kingsbury
Nathan Thrall wrote a book about a Palestinian father’s byzantine journey to Jerusalem, and then October 7th happened