Abstract
It’s long been theorised that doctors need to go beyond medical diagnosis to treat the patient for reasons of personalising treatment and personalising the patient. People who suffer illness want to be heard, such is the case for the popularity of illness narrative in current research and in creative practice.
‘This is It’ idealises multi-formed writing as a means to express the fractured self formed through chronic illness. In this case, traditional non-fiction narrative morphs with poetry, critique and theory, reflecting multiple experiences and varying emotions. It is a representation of illness narrative while it is another plea for understanding through illness narrative. The work is meant to politicise the patient (the author) as well as those in what Arthur Frank refers to as the ‘remission society’, and do so in an innovative way, exploring words as cross-genre. Just as there are many sides to illness, there should be many ways to express it.
Recommended Citation
Taylor Johnson, Heather R. Dr
(2018)
"This is It,"
Antipodes: Vol. 32:
Iss.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/antipodes/vol32/iss2/2