Chapter One The Liminal Physician Writers:A Tour of the Field of Physician Writing 1
Chapter Two Physician,Heal Thyself:Writing about Pain 25
Ⅰ．The Pain of Witnessing Pain:Jack Coulehan's "D Day,1994" 28
Ⅱ．The Pain of Killing Pain:Richard Selzer's "Mercy" 41
Ⅲ．The Amnestic Healer:Trauma and Memory in Richard Selzer's Raising the Dead 51
Ⅳ．Conclusion 71
Chapter Three The Gender Line in the Medical Profession 75
Ⅰ．Liminal Masculinity in Richard Selzer's Knife Song Korea 78
Ⅱ．Against Abstraction: Perri Klass's Other Women's Children 95
Ⅲ．Conclusion 120
Chapter Four Transition and Communitas:Ethnic Physicians and the AIDS Epidemic 123
Ⅰ．Home in the Making:Abraham Verghese's My Own Country:A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS 125
Ⅱ．"The Dream of You Dreaming Me":Rafael Campo's "You Bring out the Doctor in Me" 167
Ⅲ．Conclusion 182
Chapter Five Healing on the Edge:Stories of Confession and Grief 186
Works Cited 201