{"product_id":"9781419747342-whats-wrong","title":"What's Wrong?","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePersonal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine\u003cbr\u003e\"A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, and a devastating portrait of the ways our society fails to protect the bodies of its most vulnerable members.\" Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, and a devastating portrait of the ways our society fails to protect the bodies of its most vulnerable members.” —Melissa Febos, author of \u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat’s Wrong?\u003c\/i\u003e is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher 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: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e immunodeficiency \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e cancer \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e endometriosis \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e alcoholism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e severe depression \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e PTSD \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eWhat’s Wrong?\u003c\/i\u003e is also a beautiful celebration of nontraditional modes of healing, of how we become whole \u003ci\u003enot because\u003c\/i\u003e of health care but \u003ci\u003edespite\u003c\/i\u003e it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41271239901281,"sku":"9781419747342","price":19.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29608748.jpg?v=1725608776","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781419747342-whats-wrong","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}