3. “The Expertness of His Healer”: Diagnosis, Disclosure, and the Power of a Profession

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Foreword: Giving the Story Back xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. A Touch of the Flu: The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Diagnoses 23
8. 2. Whose Stories? Narrative Exchange and Self-Diagnosis 41
9. 3. “The Expertness of His Healer”: Diagnosis, Disclosure, and the Power of a Profession 59
10. 4. “The News Is Not Altogether Comforting”: Fiction and the Diagnostic Moment 81
11. 5. Breaking Bad: The Diagnostic Moment in Film and Television 97
12. 6. A Picture Paints a Thousand Words: The Graphic Diagnosis 125
13. 7. The Intellectual Documentary: Methods for Understanding the Diagnostic Moment 139
14. 8. What’s There to Tell? Diagnosis-as-Mystery 157
15. Notes 169
16. References 185
17. Index 201