Giving Voice and Face to the Illness Experience

Rebecca Hogue talks about giving voice and face to the illness experience on this episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Some people are inherent share people and other people aren’t.
—Rebecca Hogue

I’d rather you stumble with a good intention than not try at all.
—Rebecca Hogue

When you’re going through cancer, humor is a release.
—Rebecca Hogue

It’s humor in the moment that gets you through it.
—Rebecca Hogue

Resources

• Rebecca’s blog (livingpathography.org)
• One of Rebecca’s posts: It All Started …
• ShouldIBlog.org
• Rhizomatic Learning 14 
• David Elpern defines pathography as “a narrative that gives voice and face to the illness experience. It puts the person behind the disease in the forefront and as such is a great learning opportunity for all care givers and fellow sufferers.”
• There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love* by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell
• BAYS Anthology: Agony and Absurdity: Adventures in Cancerland: An Anthology* by Meaghan Calcari Campbell, Laurie Hessen Pomeranz, and Robin Bruns Worona
• Virtually Connecting
• Virtually Connecting ePatients

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