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| Preface | |
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| The Gendered Nature of Illness | |
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| The History of Women's Illness Narratives: Private Relationships, Public Voices | |
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| Narratives of Body and Self: The Experience of Illness | |
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| Faith | |
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| The Female Voice in Illness: An Antidote to Alienation, a Call for Connection | |
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| Dissection | |
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| Storm Warning | |
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| The Listening Room | |
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| My So-Called Lungs | |
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| Nuts | |
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| Crazy for Life: A True Story about Living with Mental Illness | |
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| Casing the Joints: A Story of Arthritis | |
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| Narratives of Diagnosis and Treatment: Relationships to the Medical Community | |
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| The Negative Privilege of Women's Illness Narratives | |
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| Stereotactic Biopsy | |
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| What If They Said? | |
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| All Patients Are Political Women | |
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| Waiting for a Transplant: A Meditation | |
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| Pathology Report | |
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| I'll Take Care of It | |
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| White Coat Syndrome | |
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| Hospital Haiku | |
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| Give my regrets | |
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| Doctor Patel Comes to Tea | |
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| Narratives of Womanhood: Social Constructions of Body, Sexuality, and Reproduction | |
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| The Placenta, the Pancake: Metaphor in Medicine | |
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| Anorexia | |
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| My Brown Daughter Wants to Know | |
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| Adventures of Amelia | |
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| The Bag | |
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| Distant Scars | |
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| Hair Matters | |
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| Symmetrical Breasts | |
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| A Dream of Living Coal | |
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| Ovary | |
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| So You're Going to Have a New Body | |
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| Watching the Laparoscopy | |
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| Follicles | |
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| Choose | |
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| Narratives of Family Life and Caregiving | |
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| Space and Absence in Muscular Dystrophy | |
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| Remembering Dan: Excerpts from My Journal | |
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| And Then She Died | |
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| Vigils, III | |
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| My Mother Is Cleaning | |
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| In the Dream | |
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| Blister | |
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| Silver | |
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| Pure and Predictable | |
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| In the Bosom of the Family: Reflections on Families and Breast Cancer | |
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| Narratives of Professional Life and Illness | |
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| It Is August 24th | |
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| Becoming Flora: When the Narrative Is Our Own | |
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| Doppelganger | |
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| The Particulars | |
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| Eight Hours | |
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| My Body, My Self | |
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| A Front-Row Seat | |
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| Leave of Absence | |
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| Narratives of Advocacy: From the Personal to the Political | |
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| Night Shift | |
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| Sometimes Cancer Just Happens | |
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| A Case of Exhaustion | |
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| The Intersection of Illness, Personality, Culture, and Social Services | |
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| Happiness in Quotation Marks | |
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| Narratives of Advocacy: Activism, Education, and Political Change | |
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| Narratives and Advocacy: A Gendered Connection | |
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| Stories from the Inside | |
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| Prisoner Stories: Suffering and Death | |
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| Surviving but Not Quite Thriving: Women's Mental Health in East Harlem | |
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| Teaching about Care at the End of Life Using Creative Nonfiction Monologues | |
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| Narrative House Calls and Cultural Memory: Communities of Women, Communities of Presence | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Permissions and Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |