Bodies of Truth Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine

Dinty W. Moore, "Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine"
English | ISBN: 1496203607 | 2019 | 210 pages | PDF | 3 MB
2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Gold for Anthologies

"Medicine still contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories patients tell us, the ones we tell them, and the ones we tell ourselves," writes contributor Madaline Harrison. Bodies of Truth continues this tradition through a variety of narrative approaches by writers representing all facets of health care. And, since all of us have been or will be touched by illness or disability-our own or that of a loved one-at some point in our lives, any reader of this anthology can relate to the challenges, frustrations, and pain-both physical and emotional-that the contributors have experienced.
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