Pt. I. Biomedicine and the Body. 1. Biomedicine and the Body / Colin Samson. 2. Spaces and Classes / Michel Foucault. 3. Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality / L. J. Jordanova. 4. Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality / Paul Rabinow -- Pt. II. Disease and the Self. 5. Disease and the Self / Colin Samson. 6. Human Contact in Life-Threatening Environments / James J. Lynch. 7. Cancer and the Self: How Illness Constellates Meaning / Roger Levin. 8. 'Illness as Metaphor' and 'AIDS and Its Metaphors' / Susan Sontag. 9. Holistic Medicine / Fred Frohock -- Pt. III. The Physician and the Patient. 10. The Physician and the Patient / Colin Samson. 11. The Last Hippie / Oliver Sacks. 12. The Body as Territory and as Wonder / Arthur W. Frank. 13. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and the Medical Encounter / Lesley Cooper. 14. A Fortunate Man / John Berger -- Pt. IV. Creating Sickness. 15. Creating Sickness / Colin Samson
16. Results of Industrialisation / Friedrich Engels. 17. Rats' Tails and Trypanosomes: Nature and Culture in Early Colonial Medicine / Megan Vaughan. 18. Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being / Harold Napoleon. 19. Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes