The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease

Vera KALITZKUS and Peter L. TWOHIG: Introduction
Part 1. Perspectives from Literature
Harold SCHWEIZER: On Waiting and Hoping in Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing”
Jennifer COOKE: Writing Plague: Transforming Narrative, Witnessing and History
Sherah WELLS: Strand by Strand: Untying the Knots of Mental and Physical Illness in the Correspondence and Diaries of Antonia White and Emily Holmes Coleman
Part 2. Politics, Community and Biomedicine
Stephan VAN ERP: Diagnosing Hidden Religion in Medicine: Health, Illness and the Politics of Hope
Kate COLEMAN: Personal and Communal Reactions to Cancer: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Beliefs held by Charedi Jewish Breast Cancer Patients
Janina KEHR: The Politics and Poetics of Migrant Tuberculosis: Modelling a “Social Disease” in French Public Health
Monica BROWN: Woman as Mysterious Machine: Metaphor, Rhetoric and Female Sexual Dysfunction
Part 3. The Multiple Subjectivities of Addiction
Andy RUDDOCK: It’s the Stories You Tell: Binge Drinking, Violence and Celebrity
Maria CAIATA ZUFFEREY: “I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict”: How Heroin and Cocaine Users Make Sense of Their Practice as a Healthy Behaviour
Kimmo SAARISTO: Abnormal Normality: Addiction, Identity and the Problem of Normal