Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life WritingThis is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability in particular HIV AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of