Topic: Pain
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The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo transforms personal trauma and chronic pain into powerful visual meditations on body, identity, and survival.
How Montaigne Profited from His Kidney Stones
Physical suffering becomes philosophical insight as illness transforms pain, fear, and mortality into unexpected benefit.
Imagining Phantom Limb Pain
The “fragmentary novel” Flights, offers literary descriptions of phantom limb pain by imagining what a known amputee from the past may have gone through.
Miracle Mile, a Play by Clark Middleton
Miracle Mile is Clark Middleton’s powerful, humorous monologue about disability, resilience, and pursuing acting despite lifelong rheumatoid arthritis.
Illness as Narrative by Ann Jurecic
A thoughtful exploration of how we read, critique, and teach illness narratives amid evolving literary theory and medical humanities.
Small Rain: A Novel by Garth Greenwell
A poet grapples with illness, uncertainty, and emotional turmoil, exploring pain, love, and the randomness of life
Getting Dopesick: Four Angles on the Opioid Crisis
We explore the opioid crisis through investigative journalism, dramatization, narrative nonfiction, and fiction, highlighting diverse perspectives beyond Biomedicine.
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