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:

immunodeficiency
cancer
endometriosis
alcoholism
severe depression
PTSD

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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. The book explores the many ways in which those receiving medical care are often overlooked, unseen, and doubted by the very clinicians who are supposed to heal them. What’s Wrong? is also a beautiful celebration of nontraditional modes of healing, of how we become whole not because of health care but despite it.

“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

"The narratives of those marginalized by Western medicine—and how they've suffered from discriminatory medical systems—are told through watercolors and digital art in this touching collection." —New York Times

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Erin Williams is the author and illustrator of Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame and the coauthor and illustrator of How to Take Care: An A-Z Guide of Radical Remedies and the Big Activity Book series.

She has more than a decade of experience in data analysis and scientific research. She lives in New York with her spouse, child, and an array of pets.

Format	Hardcover
Pages	256
Year Published	2024

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What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

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