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What's wrong : personal histories of chronic pain and bad medicine Cover Image

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

ISBN: 1419747347
ISBN: 9781419747342
Physical Description: 249 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Abrams Comicarts, 2024.

What is wrong? (other title)

Williams, Erin, (author.).

Summary:

"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 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"-- Provided by publisher.