The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain

The Body Alone is an inquiry into the experience, meaning, and articulation of pain. It is a personal hybrid account incorporating research, scholarship, and memoir to examine chronic pain through the multi-lens of medicine, theology, and philosophy. Broken bodies tell broken stories. Nina Lohman’s pain experience is portrayed through a cyclical narrative of primers, vocabulary lessons, prescription records, and hypothesized internal monologues–fractured not for the sake of experimentation but because the story itself demands it.

In both form and content, The Body Alone represents boundary-pressing work that subverts the traditional narrative by putting pressure on the medical, cultural, and political systems that impact women’s access to fair and equal healthcare. This is more than an illness narrative, it is a battle cry demanding change.

Author: Nina Lohman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 07/03/2024
Pages: 328
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781609389499
Language: English