In a series like "Connections" that aims to explore in a multifaceted and reflective way health and pathology, care for the suffering, and the concerns of those who have taken on the relief of others, a special place is held by the testimony that comes from the other side - not exactly from the subject of the study or treatment, but simply from the person who gives voice to their illness or incapacity.

In "How It Feels to Be Ill," Virginia Woolf does not examine the causes and symptoms of any transient or chronic disease, but instead probes the condition of the sick person in this different life, outside of activity and society, searching for words and images to define it and to document the works and days of this other existence.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]