Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Bodies Matter 1
5. Chapter 2: On Metaprescriptive Utterances: Cancer, Breasts and Gazes 18
6. Chapter 3: Scripting Selves: (Auto)Biographical Writing of Alzheimer Patients and Caregivers 40
7. Chapter 4: Poststructuralist Discourses and Chronic Ailments: (Type-1) Diabetes, Epilepsy and Body Breakdowns 60
8. Chapter 5: Communication Challenges: Autism, Partial Hearing and Parental Choices 80
9. Chapter 6: Texts and Meaning-Making: Critical Revisitations in Ailment/ Disability-Related Research 95
10. Chapter 7: Critical Ailment Research in Applied Sociolinguistics: Power, Perception and Social Change 117
11. References 125
12. Index 135