This is interesting. If I didn't have to work I would go.


 

Public Lecture: Professor Leigh Gilmore

86 million people worldwide have been diagnosed as

suffering from chronic pain, and the number is rising. As

chronic pain has increased, memoirs about the experience

have begun to appear. This talk examines a cluster of

chronic pain memoirs as a site for negotiating agency in the

face of irremediable pain, and the interleaving at this site of

biomedicine and narrative structure. Autobiogr...


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