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Chapter Title: Table of Contents

Book Title: Illness as Narrative

Book Author(s): Ann Jurecic
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press. (2012)
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 Contents

Acknowledgmentsix

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
Theorys Aging Body 92

Chapter 6
Reparative Reading 113

Notes133
Works Cited 149
Index169

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