Spis treści:
  • Introduction : rethinking subjectivity / Joao Biehl, Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman
  • The vanishing subject : the many faces of subjectivity / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
  • The experiential basis of subjectivity : how individuals change in the context of societal transformation / Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry
  • How the body speaks : illness and the lifeworld among the urban poor / Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das
  • Anthropological observation and self-formation / Paul Rabinow
  • Hamlet in purgatory / Stephen Greenblatt
  • America's transient mental illness : a brief history of the self-traumatized perpetrator / Allan Young
  • Violence and the politics of remorse : lessons from South Africa / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
  • The subject of mental illness : psychosis, mad violence, and subjectivity in Indonesia / Byron J. Good, Subandi and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
  • The "other" of culture in psychosis : the ex-centricity of the subject / Ellen Corin
  • Hoarders and scrappers : madness and the social person in the interstices of the city / Anne M. Lovell
  • Whole bodies, whole persons : cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and biology /Evelyn Fox Keller
  • The medical imaginary and the biotechnical embrace : subjective experiences of clinical scientists and patients / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
  • "To be freed from the infirmity of (the) age" : subjectivity, life-sustaining treatment, and palliative medicine / Eric L. Krakauer
  • A life : between psychiatric drugs and social abandonment / Joao Biehl
  • Epilogue : to live with what would otherwise be unendurable : return(s) to subjectivities / Michael M. J. Fischer.