Introduction / Mark Kidel -- Illness and meaning / Mark Kidel -- Items and motion / Peter Tatham -- Heart abuse / Elizabeth Wilde McCormick -- The doctor versus King Canute : from George Groddeck to family therapy / Sebastian Kraemer -- Health and illness in Chinese society / Roger Hill -- The meaning of illness : the homoeopathic approach / Misha Norland -- The patient as healer : how we can take part in our own recovery / Pat Kitto -- No, I can't do that, my consultant wouldn's like it / Jo Spence -- No answer to Job : reflections on the limitations of meaning in illness / Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig and Neil Micklem -- Morbistic rituals / Alfred J. Ziegler
Summary
Based on two conferences held at Dartington Hall, Devon, England, in 1985 and 1986