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the illness was not just my own; the silence around suffering was our society’s pathology.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
despondency.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Lost in a featureless wasteland of my own mortality, and finding no traction in the reams of scientific studies, intracellular molecular pathways, and endless curves of survival statistics, I began reading literature again: Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Woolf, Kafka, Mo
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Rachel Naomi Remen, who once observed,
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
this book is about living with, rather than eradicating or defeating, a disease: a story about letting go of the American ethos of overcoming and about confronting our mutual interdependence.