Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Humanist, Social Science and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease -- The Musician, the Diarist and the Construction Worker: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease -- Stanislaw Wyspiański (1869-1907): The Last Self-Portrait of the Syphilitic Artist -- Part 2 The Epistemology of Biomedicine -- The Anthropology of Aetiology -- The Social Construction of Disease: Why Homosexuality isn't Like Cancer -- Green Fingers or Pink Viagra? Female Sexual Dysfunction and Medicalisation in Contemporary Medical Discourse -- The Communication of Diagnostic Information by Doctors to Patients in the Consultation -- Part 3 Biomedicine in a Socio-Cultural Context -- Subaltern Theories of Health and Illness: An Ethnographic Study of Mexican Women With HIV Disease -- When the Diagnosed Talk: Ethnographic Narratives of Mental Illness -- Critical Excess: Sex, Drugs, Intervention -- 'Normal Gone Bad': Health Discourses, Schools and the Female Body -- Part 4 Beyond Biomedicine: Ethics, Experience, Voice -- Midwifery, Consumerism and the Ethics of Informed Choice -- Towards a Concept of Hope: A Functional Reconceptualization -- Embodied Practices and Subjectivity in Psychopathology -- Getting By: The Lived Experience of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis and their Carers of Waiting for Lung Transplant -- Speaking About the Unspeakable: Cervical Screening in New Zealand.