Chloe R. Green is a Lecturer in English at the Australian National University. She has published widely on the medical humanities, life writing, autofiction and affect theory, and was previously an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's PrefaceIntroduction: Contested Illnesses and Autobiographical Experimentation1. Illness as/and Femininity: Haunted Inheritances in the Contemporary Hysteria Memoir2. Gut Feelings: The Empathy of Disordered Eating in Chris Kraus’s Aliens & Anorexia and Amélie Nothomb’s The Life of Hunger3. Rewriting Relationality: Care and the Familial Bonds of Illness in Alice Hattrick’s Ill Feelings and Marianne Brooker’s Intervals 4. Fragments, Lists and White Space: Fibromyalgia and Forms of Sympathy in Amy Berkowitz’s and Sonya Huber’s Lyric Essays5. ‘Living in Uncertainty Was My Lot’: Porochista Khakpour’s and Meghan O’Rourke’s Chronic Lyme MemoirsConclusion: COVID-19, Long COVID and Hope for a Sick FutureReferencesIndex

How do women give voice to experiences of chronic illness which trouble or elide diagnosis, confound biomedical certainties and are the subject of enduring controversy? In this brilliant first book, Chloe R. Green shows how the formal features of experimental literary life writing play a critical role in the generation of new knowledge about contested illness. As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.

Chloe R. Green is a Lecturer in English at the Australian National University. She has published widely on the medical humanities, life writing, autofiction and affect theory, and was previously an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's PrefaceIntroduction: Contested Illnesses and Autobiographical Experimentation1. Illness as/and Femininity: Haunted Inheritances in the Contemporary Hysteria Memoir2. Gut Feelings: The Empathy of Disordered Eating in Chris Kraus’s Aliens & Anorexia and Amélie Nothomb’s The Life of Hunger3. Rewriting Relationality: Care and the Familial Bonds of Illness in Alice Hattrick’s Ill Feelings and Marianne Brooker’s Intervals 4. Fragments, Lists and White Space: Fibromyalgia and Forms of Sympathy in Amy Berkowitz’s and Sonya Huber’s Lyric Essays5. ‘Living in Uncertainty Was My Lot’: Porochista Khakpour’s and Meghan O’Rourke’s Chronic Lyme MemoirsConclusion: COVID-19, Long COVID and Hope for a Sick FutureReferencesIndex

How do women give voice to experiences of chronic illness which trouble or elide diagnosis, confound biomedical certainties and are the subject of enduring controversy? In this brilliant first book, Chloe R. Green shows how the formal features of experimental literary life writing play a critical role in the generation of new knowledge about contested illness. As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.

Chloe R. Green is a Lecturer in English at the Australian National University. She has published widely on the medical humanities, life writing, autofiction and affect theory, and was previously an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.

• AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's PrefaceIntroduction: Contested Illnesses and Autobiographical Experimentation1. Illness as/and Femininity: Haunted Inheritances in the Contemporary Hysteria Memoir2. Gut Feelings: The Empathy of Disordered Eating in Chris Kraus’s Aliens & Anorexia and Amélie Nothomb’s The Life of Hunger3. Rewriting Relationality: Care and the Familial Bonds of Illness in Alice Hattrick’s Ill Feelings and Marianne Brooker’s Intervals 4. Fragments, Lists and White Space: Fibromyalgia and Forms of Sympathy in Amy Berkowitz’s and Sonya Huber’s Lyric Essays5. ‘Living in Uncertainty Was My Lot’: Porochista Khakpour’s and Meghan O’Rourke’s Chronic Lyme MemoirsConclusion: COVID-19, Long COVID and Hope for a Sick FutureReferencesIndex

How do women give voice to experiences of chronic illness which trouble or elide diagnosis, confound biomedical certainties and are the subject of enduring controversy? In this brilliant first book, Chloe R. Green shows how the formal features of experimental literary life writing play a critical role in the generation of new knowledge about contested illness. As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.