4. Strategic Suffering: Illness Narratives as Social Empowerment among Mexican Cancer Patients

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. 1. Narrative as Construct and Construction 1
5. 2. "Fiction" and "Historicity" in Doctors' Stories: Social and Narrative Dimensions of Learning Medicine 50
6. 3. Cultural Knowledge as Resource in Illness Narratives: Remembering through Accounts of Illness 70
7. 4. Strategic Suffering: Illness Narratives as Social Empowerment among Mexican Cancer Patients 88
8. 5. Physician Autobiography: Narrative and the Social History of Medicine 108
9. 6. "Even If We Don't Have Children [We] Can Live": Stigma and Infertility in South India 128
10. 7- Broken Narratives: Clinical Encounters and the Poetics of Illness Experience 153
11. 8. Emergent Narratives 181
12. 9. With Life in One's Lap: The Story of an Eye/I (or Two) 212
13. 10. Psychotherapy in Clients' Trajectories across Contexts 237
14. 11 . Narrative Turns 259
15. Contributors 271
16. Index 273