Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Cancer Patients’ Writing and the Process of Selecting Research Materials

2. Cancer Narratives as Ethnographic Sources

3. Cancer in Finnish Folk Medicine

4. The Cancer Narrative as Dialogic Imagination

5. Popular Images of Cancer in Modern Discourse

6. The Moment of Diagnosis and Metaphoric Transformation

7. Patients’ Feelings About Deficiencies in the Biomedical Healing Drama

8. Methods of Coping and Alternative or Complementary Self-Help

9. Dream Narratives and How They Frame the Cancer Experience

10. The Study of Written Cancer Narratives: Comments and Conclusions

Bibliography
Internet sources
Archive Sources
List of Extended Archive References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index