The Body Alone
A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain
by Nina Lohman
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Pub Date Jul 03 2024 | Archive Date Jul 03 2024
University of Iowa Press | University Of Iowa Press
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Description
MEMOIR / HEALTH
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.
Advance Praise
“This is not a book about pain—it’s a journey into the heart of it. By taking readers through her own experience placed thoughtfully within the context of literature and science, Lohman’s story will resonate with those living in the land of pain and serve as a primer for those who have not ventured into it—yet.”—Abby Norman, author, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain
“This book is a searching inventory of a life altered by pain, punctuated with forays into history, etymology, theology, and poetics. It’s a stubborn, tender record of the unrecordable, a brave attempt to describe something that cannot ever be truly communicated. A beautiful howl of a book.”—Jordan Kisner, author, Thin Places: Essays from In Between
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781609389499 |
| PRICE | $24.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 310 |
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Featured Reviews
Delaney B, Reviewer
This story can be hard to read at times, a true story of Chronic Pain and what it truly looks and feels like. I loved the way that Nina chose to write her story lyrically. As someone with chronic pain, I found a lot to relate to,
Mo N, Reviewer
This is a story of pain. Some parts are, at the very least, uncomfortable to read, but so important. She describes her pain lyrically and in metaphors because how else can you describe it? Lohman is brutally honest about what it's like to suffer from chronic pain, which I can relate to and say it's the most seen I've felt when reading about it. I recommend not only to those experiencing chronic illness, but especially to those who love someone who has a chronic illness.
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