Setting out some issues -- Working through theories of the body -- Conceptualizing chronic illness with space -- Making sense of chronic illness -- Approaching analysis and the "interpretive act" -- Destabilization of the material body: onset, diagnosis, inscription -- Limits to the body: income issues, borders -- Absence of presence / presence of absence: borders, identity, everyday life -- Disciplining the environment through re-learning the body: everyday life, minutiae, daily living -- Connections