Status Updates From In the Kingdom of the Sick:...

“The fit body became at once a status symbol and an emblem of an individual’s purchasing power, moral health, self control, and discipline.” OOOH exactly…and how this is seen in the current rise of thinness/healthy eating/the deserving bodies happening at the same time as the rise of right-wing extremism and eugenics.

Stop comparing other conditions to the AIDS epidemic please I’m begging

That chapter was good and very much so true- gender is so immensely related to the way in which patients are treated. This is so real

I’m sorry but comparing the discrimination faced by patients of CFS to the AIDS epidemic and saying that they are equal in terms of how people viewed those patients and treated them is somewhat of an unfair characterization. Like both experienced discrimination? Yes almost definitely. On equal ground and amounts? I do not quite agree with that one

We have very different experiences with thyroid conditions @ the author

I’m reading this in part for personal reasons and in part for research for a project- if you have like no knowledge about disability history or chronic illness history than this is probably a good primer (so far). It’s fairly base level thus far in my opinion. I know a lot of the information already. But I think it’ll be good just to resituate myself in the research framework and like refocus my goals a bit!

I’m- that singular quote is making me consider not going further. That is such ,,,, that was the case even when the AIDS epidemic began. The government just didn’t care until it started to like show that it could affect straight white people with money. But it was never just one population who was affected