How is illness represented in todays cultural texts In Ghostbodies Maia DolphinKrute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisible a ghost because it does not always fit societys definition of disability. In these pages she reflectively engages in a philosophical discussion of the lived experience of illness alongside an examination of how language and cultural constructions influence and represent this experience in a variety of forms. The book provides a linguistic mirror through which the reader may see his or her own specific invalidity reflected enabling an examination of what it is like to live within a ghostbody. In the end DolphinKrute asks if illness is not what it seems what then is health