The illness narratives: suffering, healing, and the human condition

The meaning of symptoms and disorders

The personal and social meanings of illness

The vulnerability of pain and the pain of vulnerability

The pain of living

Chronic pain: the frustrations of desire

Neurasthenia: weakness and exhaustion in the United States and China

Conflicting explanatory models in the care of the chronically ill

Aspiration and victory: coping with chronic illness

Illness unto death

The stigma and shame of illness

The social context of chronicity

The creation of disease: factitious illness

Hypochondriasis: the ironic disease

The healers: varieties of experience in doctoring

A method for the care of the chronically ill

The challenge of a meaning-centered model for medical education and practice.