Machine generated contents note: "Two hearts" / Brian Doyle -- "Spared" / Deborah Burghardt -- "A measure of acceptance" / Floyd Skloot -- "One little mind, our lie, Dr. Lie" / Matthew S. Smith -- "Locked into life" / Mark Brazaitis -- "Rendered mute" / Teresa Blankmeyer Burke -- "Jamie's place" / Michael Berube -- "A day in the grammar of disease" / Sonya Huber -- "Marked" / William Bradley -- "750 words about cancer" / Rebecca Housel -- "The power of a handshake" / Hugh Silk -- "Submerged" / Tenley Lozano -- "Where do you go from Alston Street?" / Kat Moore -- "Confession" / Diane Kraynak -- "This moment" / Adriana Paramo -- "Sit still and uncover your eyes" / Elizabeth Brady -- "Overtones" / Meredith Davies Hadaway -- "The way of the Spring" / Patrick Donnelly -- "Type one" / Riley Passmore -- "The bad patient" / Sandra Beasley -- "A tribute to the pharmacist" / Taison Bell -- "Flying into Jerusalem" / Katherine Macfarlane -- "Reluctant reliance" / Erin M. Kelly -- "An interview with my mom" / Belinda Waller-Peterson -- "Days of the giants" / Madaline Harrison.

""Medicine still contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories patients tell us, the ones we tell them, and the ones we tell ourselves," writes contributor Madaline Harrison. Bodies of Truth continues this tradition through a variety of narrative approaches by writers representing all facets of health care. And, since all of us have been or will be touched by illness or disability--our own or that of a loved one--at some point in our lives, any reader of this anthology can relate to the challenges, frustrations, and pain--both physical and emotional--that the contributors have experienced.<BR /><BR />Bodies of Truth offers perspectives on a wide array of issues, from food allergies, cancer, and neurology to mental health, autoimmune disorders, and therapeutic music. These experiences are_recounted by patients, nurses, doctors, parents, children, caregivers, and others who attempt to articulate the intangible human and emotional factors that surround life when it intersects with the medical field"--