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"A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, and a devastating portrait of the ways our society fails to protect the bodies of its most vulnerable members." Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award WHAT'S WRONG? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams's own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like: immunodeficiencycancerendometriosisalcoholismsevere depressionPTSD Western medicine, which intends to cure illness and minimize pain, often causes more loss, abuse, and suffering for those Americans who don't fit within the narrow definition of who the system was built to serve - cis, white, heterosexual men.
About the Author
Erin Williams is a writer and illustrator from New York. She also dabbles (works full time) as an oncology researcher, focusing on healthcare disparities.She's the author and illustrator of Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame (Abrams, 2019) . She is the coauthor and illustrator of The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People and The Big Activity Book for Anxious People, with Jordan Reid (Plume and Tarcher Perigee) .Her writing has also appeared on Salon, Huffington Post, and Buzzfeed. She's presented scientific research at ISPOR, ASCO, ASH, and other national oncology conferences. Her scientific research has been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
