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Sarah Stern

Sarah is a patient advocate and Certified End of Life Specialist. Her testimony to DC Council helped pass a bill to protect affordable health care. She believes in the power of patient stories.

Have a look at her favorite writers and creators in medicine.

An explanatory poster of Sarah Ramey’s 432 page “The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness.”

Illness Literature

+ The Pain Scale by Eula Biss
+ Narrative Medicine by Rita Charon
+ The Wounded Storyteller by Arthur W. Frank
+ The Body Multiple by Annemarie Mol
+ The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry
+ Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
+ On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf

Patient Memoir

+ Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
+ Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
by Ellen Forney
+ Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaoud
+ The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
+ An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
+ The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke
+ The Lady’s Handbook by Sarah Ramey
+ The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
+ Disability Visibility by Alice Wong

Imaginative Patient Community Organizing

+ Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant
+ Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-led Revolution in Medical Care by Susannah Fox
+ Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva
+ Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
+ Artists Remaking Medicine by Emily F. Peters
+ Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
+ Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care by Victor Montori

Crip Community Creativity

+ Ache Magazine
+ Chronic Pain Project
+ Lassitude Zine
+ the remote body
+ Resting Up Collective
+ Sick Magazine
+ When Language Runs Dry

Health Art
and Design

+ Panteha Abareshi
+ Bon Ku, MD
+ Carolyn Lazard
+ Ellen Lupton
+ Giorgia Lupi
+ Katie McCurdy

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©2024
Sarah Stern