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Maia Dolphin-Krute brings personal experience of illness into conversation with the language used to describe health, disability and the body. These essays resist treating illness simply as a symbol for something else, attending instead to the practical situations, physical sensations and uncertain relationships through which a person encounters medical care and everyday life.
The chapters move among healthcare institutions, the rhetoric of survival, representations of wellness and the experience of living with continuing bodily difficulty. Personal narrative and theoretical reflection are placed alongside one another, allowing ordinary details and particular encounters to question the categories through which illness is often made understandable to other people.
The book's form is exploratory rather than a sequence of clinical explanations. Its essays vary in length and approach, with a bibliography providing the intellectual background to their arguments. Readers interested in memoir, disability studies or the cultural language of medicine will find writing that stays close to embodied experience while asking how that experience can be represented without being reduced to an illustrative metaphor.