Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Prologue: Invoking Healing xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. A Note on Shit xvii
6. Overture: healing as desire and value 1
7. One. Healing Tendencies 17
8. Two. We Are More Complicated Than We Know 49
9. Three. We Are More Imaginative Than We Think 81
10. Four. When We Learn to Heal, It Matters 121
11. Coda. Healing with covid, or why medicine is not enough 161
12. Notes 163
13. Bibliography 195
14. Index 211