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Unreliable Bodies: A Follow-Up Twenty Years Later By A Mother And Daughter About The Impact Of Illness And Disability On Their Lives, Kaethe Weingarten, Miranda Worthen

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We are a mother and daughter, both health care professionals, who offer a follow-up to an article we published twenty years ago about the impact of each other’s ongoing, serious medical problems on our relationship. In this article, we contribute a long-term perspective on the differences between having an illness that is well or poorly understood by medical professionals and the lay community. We also discuss health in the cont ext of identity formation and life stage, as during this interval the daughter left home, graduated college, married, and had two children. Also in this period, the mother survived a …