Chronic pain is in a state of representational crisis. That was how Sara Wasson opened the symposium, ‘Representing Pain: Narrative & Fragments’ at Lancaster University in August. Part of Wasson’s AHRC-funded network, Translating Chronic Pain, the day brought together academics, […]
Out of Darkness Comes Light – mysteriously beautiful photographs from a bedbound sufferer By Penny Clare “I was mostly confined to bed in a dark room – for years, and years, and years. At some point, in this isolated sea, […]
Ian Kidd writes: There is a long and venerable precedent for the claim that certain experiences of illness can be morally improving. A diversity of religious and philosophical figures, ranging from the Cynics and Stoics of ancient Greece through Augustine […]
