Women in Pain, Doctors in Power: Medical Paternalism in Suzanne E. Berger’s Horizontal Woman: The Story of a Body in Exile (1996) and Lynne Greenberg’s The Body Broken: A Memoir (2009)

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Acknowledgments

The author of this essay wants to acknowledge their participation in the funded Research Project Illness in the Age of Extinction: Anglophone Narratives of Personal and Planetary Degradation (2000–2020) (Ref. PID2019-109565RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).

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Funding

This work was supported by the Ministry of Universities of Spain and financed by the European Union (NextGenerationEU) under Grant “Margarita Salas” for the training of young doctors.