Inspired by the possibilities of narrative, the essays in this direction-setting volume present stories drawn from a range of ethnographic contexts. Stories of illness and healing are often arresting in their power, and they can illuminate aspects of practices and experiences surrounding illness that might otherwise be neglected. Recognizing the value of increased theoretical consciousness among those eliciting and analyzing narratives, these contributors explore narrative from a variety of perspectives.
Acknowledgments ix Narrative as Construct and Construction 1(49) Linda C. Garro Cheryl Mattingly ``Fiction and ``Historicity in Doctors Stories: Social and Narrative Dimensions of Learning Medicine 50(20) Byron J. Good Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Cultural Knowledge as Resource in Illness Narratives: Remembering through Accounts of Illness 70(18) Linda C. Garro Strategic Suffering: Illness Narratives as Social Empowerment among Mexican Cancer Patients 88(20) Linda M. Hunt Physician Autobiography: Narrative and the Social History of Medicine 108(20) Donald Pollock ``Even If We Dont Have Children (We) Can Live: Stigma and Infertility in South India 128(25) Catherine Kohler Riessman Broken Narratives: Clinical Encounters and the Poetics of Illness Experience 153(28) Laurence J. Kirmayer Emergent Narratives 181(31) Cheryl Mattingly With Life in Ones Lap: The Story of an Eye/I (or Two) 212(25) Unni Wikan Psychotherapy in Clients Trajectories across Contexts 237(22) Ole Dreier Narrative Turns 259(12) Linda C. Garro Cheryl Mattingly Contributors 271(2) Index 273
Cheryl Mattingly is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Occupational Science at the University of Southern California. She has published extensively on narrative and received the Polgar Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology in 1999. Her most recent book is Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots (1998). Linda C. Garro is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of the Stirling Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology in 1999, she has published widely in medical, cognitive, and psychological anthropology.
