Narrative & the Cultural Construction of Illness & Healing

Acknowledgments ix Narrative as Construct and Construction 1(49) Linda C. Garro Cheryl Mattingly ``Fiction'' and ``Historicity'' in Doctors' Stories: Social and Narrative Dimensions of Learning Medicine 50(20) Byron J. Good Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Cultural Knowledge as Resource in Illness Narratives: Remembering through Accounts of Illness 70(18) Linda C. Garro Strategic Suffering: Illness Narratives as Social Empowerment among Mexican Cancer Patients 88(20) Linda M. Hunt Physician Autobiography: Narrative and the Social History of Medicine 108(20) Donald Pollock ``Even If We Don't Have Children [We] Can Live'': Stigma and Infertility in South India 128(25) Catherine Kohler Riessman Broken Narratives: Clinical Encounters and the Poetics of Illness Experience 153(28) Laurence J. Kirmayer Emergent Narratives 181(31) Cheryl Mattingly With Life in One's Lap: The Story of an Eye/I (or Two) 212(25) Unni Wikan Psychotherapy in Clients' Trajectories across Contexts 237(22) Ole Dreier Narrative Turns 259(12) Linda C. Garro Cheryl Mattingly Contributors 271(2) Index 273