Mark Honigsbaum

For many years, people living in Lyme, Connecticut, were plagued by mysterious flu-like symptoms, rashes and joint pains. Patients were convinced that their symptoms had something to do with the deer that roamed the nearby woods and the ticks they […]

Of all the symptoms with which illness acquaints us, pain is famously the most difficult to quantify. Both a somatic and psychic experience, pain is a chameleon and stubbornly private. As Virginia Woolf observes in her essay On Being Ill,