Pain woman takes your keys, and other essays from a nervous system

Pain woman takes your keys, and other essays from a nervous system /

"Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System...

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Main Author: Huber, Sonya, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017
Series:American lives.
Subjects:
Chronic pain.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • I. Pain bows in greeting
  • What pain wants
  • The Lava Lamp of pain
  • Welcome to the kingdom of the sick
  • The alphabet of pain
  • Prayer to pain
  • II. Side projects and secret identities
  • My alternate selves with pain in silver lamé bodysuits
  • The cough drop and the puzzle of modernity
  • From inside the egg
  • Cupcakes
  • Amoeba girl
  • III. My machines
  • The status of pain
  • Peering into the dark of the self, with selfie
  • Augmentation
  • Interstate and interbeing
  • Pain woman takes your keys
  • IV. Bitchiness as treatment protocol
  • On gratitude, and off
  • Life is good 1, 2, 3
  • Dear noted feminist scholar
  • V. Intimate moments with the three of us
  • A pain-sex anti-manifesto
  • The joy of not cooking
  • Kidney stone in my shoe
  • If woman is five
  • A day in the grammar of disease
  • VI. Measuring the sky
  • Vital sign 5
  • Alternative pain scale
  • In the grip of the sky
  • Between one and ten thousand
  • Inside the Nautilus.

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