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Selections from Pathogenesis
- Literature and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2000
- pp. 25-37
- 10.1353/lm.2000.0009
- Article
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Munson's poem images her Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) in powerful poetic couplets that reveal and celebrate desire in the midst of overwhelming illness. Munson's poem, like other healing narratives, moves beyond the personal to engage cultural and professional voices in the discourse of CFIDS.