Illness as Narrative

Contents

vii Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1 Illness Narratives and the Challenge to Criticism 3 Chapter 2 Life Narratives in the Risk Society 18 Chapter 3 Responding to the Pain of Others 43 Chapter 4 Sontag, Suffering, and the Work of Writing 67 Chapter 5 Theory’s Aging Body 92 Chapter 6 Reparative Reading 113 Notes 133 Works Cited 149 Index 169 Contents ...