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What's wrong? : personal histories of chronic pain and bad medicine / Erin Williams.

Williams, Erin, (author,, artist.).

Summary:

"What's Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams's own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like immunodeficiency, cancer, endometriosis, alcoholism, severe depression, and PTSD. Western medicine, which intends to cure illness and minimize pain, often causes more loss, abuse, and suffering for those Americans who don't fit within the narrow definition of who the system was built to serve -- cis, white, heterosexual men. The book explores the many ways in which those receiving medical care are often overlooked, unseen, and doubted by the very clinicians who are supposed to heal them. What's Wrong? is also a beautiful celebration of nontraditional modes of healing, of how we become whole not because of health care but despite it." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781419747342
ISBN: 1419747347
Physical Description: 249 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Abrams ComicArts, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-249).

Formatted Contents Note:

What's wrong with me? : Part I -- What's wrong with me? : Part II -- How I came to believe that science (but not psychiatry) could restore me to sanity -- Jesus loves me, this I know, for he gave me Lexapro -- What's wrong with me? : Part III -- What's wrong with Dee -- What's wrong with Rain? -- What's wrong with Alex? -- What's wrong with Adriana? -- What's wrong with me? : Part IV -- What's wrong with evolution? -- What's wrong with science? -- What's wrong with medicine? -- What's wrong with Me? : Part V -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.