Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing

Cheryl Mattingly is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Occupational Science at the University of Southern California. She has published extensively on narrative and received the Polgar Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology in 1999. Her most recent book is Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots (1998). Linda C. Garro is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of the Stirling Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology in 1999, she has published widely in medical, cognitive, and psychological anthropology.

• Acknowledgments 1. Narrative as Construct and as Construction: An Introduction Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly 2. "Fiction" and "Historicity" in Doctors' Stories: Social and Narrative Dimensions of Learning Medicine Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 3. Cultural Knowledge as Resource in Illness Narratives: Remembering through Accounts of Illness Linda C. Garro 4. Strategic Suffering: Illness Narratives as Social Empowerment among Mexican Cancer Patients Linda M. Hunt 5. Physician Autobiography: Narrative and the Social History of Medicine Donald Pollock 6. "Even If We Don't Have Children [We] Can Live": Stigma and Infertility in South India Catherine Kohler Riessman 7. Broken Narratives: Clinical Encounters and the Poetics of Illness Experience Laurence J. Kirmayer 8. Emergent Narratives Cheryl Mattingly 9. With Life in One's Lap: The Story of an Eye/I (or Two) Unni Wikan 10. Psychotherapy in Clients' Trajectories across Contexts Ole Dreier 11. Narrative Turns Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly Contributors Index