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Tables of Contents for Reconstructing Illness
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the First Edition
ix
 
Preface to the Second Edition
xiii
 
Acknowledgments
xxi
 
Introduction
1
30
The Myth of Rebirth and the Promise of Cure
31
30
Myths of Battle and Journey
61
30
Constructing Death: Myths about Dying
91
34
Healthy-Mindedness: Myth as Medicine
125
34
Pathographies and Ideological Myth in the 1990s
159
32
Appendix
191
36
Notes
227
22
References
249
28
Index
277