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The weight of words: human relationality in end-of-life memoirs

How Gwyneth Paltrow Put Concussions On Trial

The case against her was weak enough. Did her defense have to mock the very idea of invisible injuries?

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Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine

Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.

The Consolations of the Illness Memoir

Sick (2018), and Anne Boyer’s The Undying (2019), for a few examples, all play with form and question the utility of a linear story with a definite conclusion. This makes Tessa Miller’s new book, , a bit of a throwback. A memoir of being diagnosed and living with Crohn’s disease, Miller’s book offers a didactic narrative, in Hawkins’s taxonomy, or a questing one, in Frank’s. Hers is one of triumph, if not restitution.  Tessa Miller really wants to help. A tightly-wound achiever, “I’d planned for everything,” she writes in the book’s early pages . “I signed up for every high