Chronicling the chronic: narrating the meaninglessness of chronic pain.

This article proposes a way of narrating chronic pain: the telling of a Recent work in the medical humanities has been critical of traditional approaches to illness narratives. In line with this criticism, we argue that the experience of chronic pain resists internally coherent, plot-driven-in other words, Aristotelian-narrative. Drawing on phenomenological studies, we state that chronic pain is an utterly meaningless experience due to its relentless continuation over time.