The practice of medicine has advanced dramatically in recent years, but the language used to discuss illness – by medical practitioners, patients and carers �

What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a pe

An investigation of the influence of gender, social class, age and illness type in the language of people talking about their experiences of illness. It shows e

Creative expression inspired by disease has been criticized as a celebration of victimhood, unmediated personal experience, or just simply bad art. Despite deba

The story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities.