Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The Grey Zone as a canon -- Popular versions of the Grey Zone -- Introduction -- Images of the body -- 1. The Grey Zone as a Primordial Figure: Greek Origins -- Form, the hypothetical, the image -- Likely story -- Conclusion -- 2. Ambiguity as a Social Phenomenon: Reshaping the Greeks -- Views of the original division: inner, outer -- Division as split: self-knowledge -- Analogy -- Same and Other -- Analysis -- Division: transposition -- 3. The Elemental Vision of the Split -- Intersubjectivity -- Dualism -- The magic of aesthetics -- The enigma of human nature -- The dialogue -- 4. The Official History and the Unwritten Text -- History -- Absence and presence -- Stories -- Seeing-as and history -- Desire as the inward call -- Professionalization -- Enlightened discourse -- The voice of the patient -- Being real -- March of medical science -- Plato's city of pigs -- The force of the city -- 5. The Relationship of Knowledge to Life -- Classic and modern -- Desire and knowledge: desire for knowledge/knowledge of desire -- Specialization and excellence -- Fascination -- Excellence, expertise -- The redefinition of ethics: applying knowledge -- Market value: knowledge as a derivative -- 6. The City of Pigs as Travesty -- Division of labor -- Blind spot -- Institutional logic -- Parsons' travesty of health and illness in modern society -- The sick role -- Secondary gain -- Conclusion -- 7. Health and the City -- Unexamined question -- The connection of health to death -- Extending the sense of health -- Birth, death and the in-between -- Sources -- Creativity and corruption -- Border crossings -- Analogical thinking -- The epidemic -- Variation as a communal problem -- Polis -- Infection -- Doxa as sickness and the city.

Excess as a social force -- 8. On Being Old -- Physical decline/passing time -- The aged as a minority group -- The division in age -- Trajectories, graph of desire -- The body of common culture -- Justice: corporeal and aesthetic -- Fate, symptom, caricature -- 9. The Formula: Medicalization and Its Guises -- Advance or infantilization? -- What is medicalization? -- Being classified -- Weakness -- Influences, fate, chance, taking hope -- The reassurance of the mark -- Towards a grammar for public health -- 10. Prosthetics -- The imaginary of medicalization -- Prosthetic desire -- 11. The Recurrence of the Body -- The materiality of language -- Stepping over -- Disfiguration -- Commonplaces -- Stress -- The body has a mind of its own -- Mind over matter -- Is a person more than a body? -- Habitualization -- Expression -- Symptom, trauma -- 12. Moods of Being -- Typification -- Covering up (aka: repression) -- Measuring up and/or not -- Freud's scenario -- Tongue-tied and talkative -- Anxiety -- Excursus on disfigurement -- Primal scene/discourse without speech -- Elementary situation -- Equality and its demands -- The mystery of birth -- 13. Conclusion -- Negations -- Narrative and the Divided Line -- First and second speaker -- The discourse of mastery -- The remainder -- The body as remains -- Remains as such -- Life and death -- References.