Chronic Conditions captures myriad ways in which the chronic conditions the sufferer. Karen Engle explores, through personal experience as well as research in medical history, literature, and art, how it feels to become attuned to the rhythms of ongoing physical pain.

Karen Engle is professor of visual culture at the University of Windsor, author of Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination, and co-editor of Feelings of Structure: Explorations in Affect.