Introduction. Part I: Bodies:. Introduction. 1. a Reading The Bodya Paul Atkinson. 2. The Power Of The Visible: The Meaning Of Diagnostic Tests In Chronic Back Paina Lorna A. Rhodes, Carol A. Mcphillips--Tangum, Christine Markham And Rebecca Klenk. 3. a Exchanging Spare Parts Or Becoming A New Person? Peoplea s Attitudes Toward Receiving And Donating Organsa Margareta A. Sanner. 4. a Social And Ethical Aspects Of In Vitro Fertilizationa Elizabeth Heitman. 5. a Reproductive Genetics, Gender And The Body: a Please Doctor, May I Have A Normal Baby?a Elizabeth Ettorre. 6.:a A Mirage Of Genesa Peter Conrad. 7.:a A Revenge On Modern Times.Notes On Traumatic Brain Injurya David Webb. 8.:a Contemporary Hospice Care: The Sequestration Of The Unbounded Body And Dirty Dyinga Julia Lawton. Part II: Health And Risk:. Introduction. 9. a The Rise Of Surveillance Medicinea David Armstrong. 10. a Health Related Behavioural Change In Context: Young People In Transitiona Stephen Pavis, Sarah Cunningham--Burley, And Amanda Amos. 11. a Accidents And The Risk Society: Some Problems With Preventiona Judith Green. 12. a Invisible Women? The Importance Of Gender In Lay Beliefs About Heart Problemsa Carol Emslie, Kate Hunt And Graham Watt. 13. a Beliefs And Accounts Of Illness: Views From Two Cantonese--Speaking Communities In Englanda Lindsay Prior, Pang Lai Chun And See Beng Huat. Part III: Experiencing Illness:. Introduction. 14. a ME And The Medical Encountera Lesley Cooper. 15. a Parkinsona s Disease As A Problem Of Shame In Public Appearancea Gerhard Nijhof. 16. a From Biographical Disruption To Biographical Reinforcement: The Case Of HIV Positive Mena DaniSle Carricaburu Andjanine Pierret. 17. a The Meaning Of Lumps: A Case Study Of The Ambiguities Of Riska Sandra M.Gifford. 18. a Pumping Iron: Compliance With Chelation Therapy Among Young People Who Have Thalassaemiaa Karl Atkin, And Waqar I. U. Ahmad. Part IV: Social Patterning Of Health And Illness:. Introduction. 19. a Socio--Economic Change And Inequalities In Men And Womena s Health In The UKa Hilary Graham. 20. a Ethnic Inequalities In Health: A Review Of UK Epidemiological Evidencea George Davey Smith, Nish Chaturvedi, Seeromanie Harding, James Nazroo And Rory Williams. 21. a Area, Class And Health: Should We Be Focusing On Places Or People?a Sally Macintyre, Sheila Maciver, And Anne Soomans. 22. a The Psycho--Social Perspective On Social Inequalities In Healtha Jon Ivor Elstad. Part V: Health Care Work:. Introduction. 22. a Medical Autonomy And The UK State 1975 -- 2025a Stephen Harrison, S. And Waqar I.U. Ahmad. 23. a Humour As Resistance To Professional Dominance In Community Mental Health Teamsa Lesley Griffiths. 24. a The State And Complementary Medicine: A Changing Relationshipa Sarah Cant And Ursula Sharma. 25. a Working On The Front--Line Risk Culture And Nursing In The New NH Sa Ellen Annandale. 26. Your Life In Their Hands: Trust In The Medical Encountera Deborah Lupton. Index.