Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. User’s Guide ix
4. General Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Patients
6. Introduction 7
7. As One Might Expect 9
8. Hands: A Suite of Stories 11
9. Prenatal Exam 18
10. Sunday Nights at the Shangri-La 20
11. A Picture Made of Sound 30
12. Centre of Dread 34
13. At Thirteen, Asthmatic 38
14. Daughter Cells 41
15. BSE 49
16. Things Taken 55
17. Pain Scale 61
18. Seeing the Heart 63
19. Matter and Energy 65
20. My Little Heart Attack 74
21. The Eighth Day 75
22. Life Study 82
23. Second Sight 91
24. Lethargy, Resulting from the Sudden Extinction of Light 98
25. On the Loss and Reconstruction of a Self 101
26. The Cure of Metaphor 108
27. Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome 111
28. Inadequacy of Impotence 113
29. Diabetes: My Body Says “Fall” 114
30. Care for the Patient 117
31. I, Michael 118
32. Part 2: Friends and Family
33. Introduction 125
34. Drawing Insulin 127
35. Days and Nights in NICU 130
36. Eden and I Are Playing Go Fish 136
37. Palliation 137
38. All Out of Funny in Crystal Lake, California 143
39. 911 149
40. Stoma 154
41. Unpacking My Daughter’s Library 161
42. My Father’s Polio 168
43. Lie Down 176
44. Friendship Bracelets 182
45. Hope from a Distance 185
46. Something Happened 192
47. The Right Thing to Say 196
48. Second Round 204
49. On Different Hospital Floors 211
50. The Alzheimer’s Man 213
51. The Second Parlour 215
52. The Wong-Baker Scale 220
53. Denial 226
54. Part 3: Practitioners
55. Introduction 231
56. Accident Room 233
57. Tale of a T-shirt 244
58. The Texture of a Word 251
59. Table of Unidentified Contents 254
60. Figuring the Ground 257
61. Refugees in Southeast Asia 259
62. Mid-winter Night 267
63. On Pathography 269
64. Elysium 276
65. First Day on the Wards 284
66. On Call 290
67. Making Images 302