TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- ON CLINICAL HISTORY -- CONFRONTING THE OTHER -- VENATIO, VEXATIO AND THE SUBDUCTIONOF MEANING IN MEDICINE -- THE THIRD CULTURE -- PART II -- CAN YOU DIE FROM NOTBEING LISTENED TO? -- NARRATIVE MEDICINE -- LESSONS FROM A BRAIN DISEASE -- SELVES, HOLDING THEIR OWN WITH ILLNESS -- DISSONANCE AND DECISION -- PART III -- REPRESENTATIONS OF ILLNESSIN CONTEMPORARY SHORT FICTION -- WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREAND THE REPRESENTATIONOF FEMALE MADNESS -- POETICS OF TRAUMA -- DON'T LOOK BACK -- FICTION AS HEALING -- MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN -- PART IV -- VARIATIONS IN SUFFERING ACCORDINGTO DIFFERENT CONTEXTUAL PRESSURES -- AFFECTING THE BODYAND TRANSFORMING DESIRE -- THE NARRATIVE OF THE MAN WHO SUFFERS -- PART V -- BEING-IN-STORIES -- ON THE LIMITS OF KNOWINGSUFFERING AND PAIN -- SCREAMS, SHOUTS AND SILENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.