Working at therapeutic personhood / Kent Maynard -- Shaping new identities: general practitioners in Britain and South Africa / Anne Digby -- Pharmacists and other drug-providers in Cambodia: identities and experiences / Ing-Britt Trankell and Jan Ovesen -- The vicissitudes of medical identity in Cameroon: Kedjom "traditional doctors" and an ambivalent clientele / Kent Maynard -- Sexual orientation and gender identity among Zulu diviners / Gina Buijs -- Learning to be an acupuncturist, and not becoming one / Elisabeth Hsu -- Necessary in-betweens: auxiliary workers in a nursing-home hierarchy / Janette Davies -- Midwives' identity in a British hospital: the cost of a normal birth / Jenny Littlewood.