Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents xi
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER 1 Body Language and the Poetics of Illness 19
6. CHAPTER 2 From Neurosis to Narrative: The Private Life of the Nerves 48
7. CHAPTER 3 Neuromimesis and the Medical Gaze 81
8. CHAPTER 4 The National Health Defining and Defending Bodily Boundaries 124
9. Conclusions 177
10. Notes 187
11. Bibliography 221
12. Index 241