Outputs (3)

The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Cheston, K., Cenedese, M., & Woods, A. (2023). The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19. Journal of Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09824-y

Long COVID affects millions of individuals worldwide but remains poorly understood and contested. This article turns to accounts of patients' experiences to ask: What might narrative be doing both to long COVID and for those who live with the conditi... Read More about The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19.

Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain (2023)
Journal Article
Cheston, K. (2023). Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain. Literature and Medicine, 41(2), 391-415. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921569

Storytelling is good for us—or so we are told. This article examines two memoirs, by Hilary Mantel and Susanna Kaysen, in which narrating experiences of gynecological pain provokes shame and deepens pain. By attending to shame as a textual presence,... Read More about Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain.

(Dis)respect and shame in the context of ‘medically unexplained’ illness (2022)
Journal Article
Cheston, K. (2022). (Dis)respect and shame in the context of ‘medically unexplained’ illness. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 28(5), 909-916. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13740

A significant proportion of somatic symptoms remain, at present, medically unexplained. These symptoms are common, can affect any part of the body, and can result in a wide range of outcomes—from a minor, transient inconvenience to severe, chronic di... Read More about (Dis)respect and shame in the context of ‘medically unexplained’ illness.