While arthritis pain affects one out of three Americans, Mary Felstiner is the first to tell the personal story of the nation's most common yet neglected disease. Join us as she and her rheumatologist discuss her private experience and the far-reaching investigations of a socially hidden ailment and of any chronic condition—how to handle love, work, sexuality, fatigue, betrayal, pain, time, mortality, rights, myths, and memory.
'Felstiner proves not only an able historian but a powerful memoirist, deftly combining the private and the public. Particularly compelling are her vivid accounts of how it actually feels to be her.' —Los Angeles Times