Pamela Moss is a professor in the Studies in Policy and Practice program at the University of Victoria.Katherine Teghtsoonian is an associate professor in the Studies in Policy and Practice program at the University of Victoria.

'This eclectic collection of seventeen provocative and challenging essays adds to the burgeoning literature concerning the ways in which power relations constitute people's experiences and interpretations of illness or disability in industrialized Western societies... The volume is refreshing and innovative in its multidisciplinary approach.' - Susan Philpin (Sociology of Health & Illness, vol 31:04:2009)

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsPower and Illness: Authority, Bodies, and Context PAMELA MOSS and KATHERINE TEGHTSOONIANClaiming a Disability Benefit as Contesting Social Citizenship MICHAEL J. PRINCEWorkers' Compensation and Controversial IllnessesKATHERINE LIPPELManaging Workplace Depression: Contesting the Contours of Emerging Policy in the Workplace KATHERINE TEGHTSOONIANContesting Coronary Candidacy: Reframing Risk Modification in Coronary Heart Disease JAN ANGUSHepatitis C and the Dawn of Biological Citizenship: Unravelling the Policy Implications MICHAEL ORSINITracing Contours of Contestation in Narratives about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome PIA H. BULOWCancer as a Contested Illness: Seeking Help amid Treatment MARY ELLEN PURKIS and CATHERINE VAN MOSSELEdging Embodiment and Embodying Categories: Reading Bodies Marked with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a Contested Illness PAMELA MOSS Managing the Monstrous Feminine: The Role of Premenstrual Syndrome in the Subjectification of Women JANE M. USSHERResisting an Illness Label: Disability, Impairment, and Illness SHARON DALE STONEThe Race and Class Politics of Anorexia Nervosa: Unravelling White, Middle-Class Standards in Representations of Eating Problems HELEN GREMILLION'More Labels Than a Jam Jar': The Gendered Dynamics of Diagnosis for Girls and Women with Autism JOYCE DAVIDSONThe Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different 'Problems,' New Drugs -- More Pressures? ANNIE POTTSMoving from Settled to Contested: Transformations in the Anatomo-Politics of Breast Cancer, 1970--1990 MAREN KLAWITEREnvironments, Bodies, and the Cultural Imaginary: Imagining Ecological Impairment STEVE KROLL-SMITH and JOSHUA KELLEYContestation and Medicalization PETER CONRAD and CHERYL STULTSIndex

Pamela Moss is a professor in the Studies in Policy and Practice program at the University of Victoria.Katherine Teghtsoonian is an associate professor in the Studies in Policy and Practice program at the University of Victoria.

'This eclectic collection of seventeen provocative and challenging essays adds to the burgeoning literature concerning the ways in which power relations constitute people's experiences and interpretations of illness or disability in industrialized Western societies... The volume is refreshing and innovative in its multidisciplinary approach.' - Susan Philpin (Sociology of Health & Illness, vol 31:04:2009)

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsPower and Illness: Authority, Bodies, and Context PAMELA MOSS and KATHERINE TEGHTSOONIANClaiming a Disability Benefit as Contesting Social Citizenship MICHAEL J. PRINCEWorkers' Compensation and Controversial IllnessesKATHERINE LIPPELManaging Workplace Depression: Contesting the Contours of Emerging Policy in the Workplace KATHERINE TEGHTSOONIANContesting Coronary Candidacy: Reframing Risk Modification in Coronary Heart Disease JAN ANGUSHepatitis C and the Dawn of Biological Citizenship: Unravelling the Policy Implications MICHAEL ORSINITracing Contours of Contestation in Narratives about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome PIA H. BULOWCancer as a Contested Illness: Seeking Help amid Treatment MARY ELLEN PURKIS and CATHERINE VAN MOSSELEdging Embodiment and Embodying Categories: Reading Bodies Marked with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a Contested Illness PAMELA MOSS Managing the Monstrous Feminine: The Role of Premenstrual Syndrome in the Subjectification of Women JANE M. USSHERResisting an Illness Label: Disability, Impairment, and Illness SHARON DALE STONEThe Race and Class Politics of Anorexia Nervosa: Unravelling White, Middle-Class Standards in Representations of Eating Problems HELEN GREMILLION'More Labels Than a Jam Jar': The Gendered Dynamics of Diagnosis for Girls and Women with Autism JOYCE DAVIDSONThe Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different 'Problems,' New Drugs -- More Pressures? ANNIE POTTSMoving from Settled to Contested: Transformations in the Anatomo-Politics of Breast Cancer, 1970--1990 MAREN KLAWITEREnvironments, Bodies, and the Cultural Imaginary: Imagining Ecological Impairment STEVE KROLL-SMITH and JOSHUA KELLEYContestation and Medicalization PETER CONRAD and CHERYL STULTSIndex

Pamela Moss is a professor in the Studies in Policy and Practice program at the University of Victoria.Katherine Teghtsoonian is an associate professor in the Studies in Policy and Practice program at the University of Victoria.

'This eclectic collection of seventeen provocative and challenging essays adds to the burgeoning literature concerning the ways in which power relations constitute people's experiences and interpretations of illness or disability in industrialized Western societies... The volume is refreshing and innovative in its multidisciplinary approach.' - Susan Philpin (Sociology of Health & Illness, vol 31:04:2009)

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsPower and Illness: Authority, Bodies, and Context PAMELA MOSS and KATHERINE TEGHTSOONIANClaiming a Disability Benefit as Contesting Social Citizenship MICHAEL J. PRINCEWorkers' Compensation and Controversial IllnessesKATHERINE LIPPELManaging Workplace Depression: Contesting the Contours of Emerging Policy in the Workplace KATHERINE TEGHTSOONIANContesting Coronary Candidacy: Reframing Risk Modification in Coronary Heart Disease JAN ANGUSHepatitis C and the Dawn of Biological Citizenship: Unravelling the Policy Implications MICHAEL ORSINITracing Contours of Contestation in Narratives about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome PIA H. BULOWCancer as a Contested Illness: Seeking Help amid Treatment MARY ELLEN PURKIS and CATHERINE VAN MOSSELEdging Embodiment and Embodying Categories: Reading Bodies Marked with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a Contested Illness PAMELA MOSS Managing the Monstrous Feminine: The Role of Premenstrual Syndrome in the Subjectification of Women JANE M. USSHERResisting an Illness Label: Disability, Impairment, and Illness SHARON DALE STONEThe Race and Class Politics of Anorexia Nervosa: Unravelling White, Middle-Class Standards in Representations of Eating Problems HELEN GREMILLION'More Labels Than a Jam Jar': The Gendered Dynamics of Diagnosis for Girls and Women with Autism JOYCE DAVIDSONThe Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different 'Problems,' New Drugs -- More Pressures? ANNIE POTTSMoving from Settled to Contested: Transformations in the Anatomo-Politics of Breast Cancer, 1970--1990 MAREN KLAWITEREnvironments, Bodies, and the Cultural Imaginary: Imagining Ecological Impairment STEVE KROLL-SMITH and JOSHUA KELLEYContestation and Medicalization PETER CONRAD and CHERYL STULTSIndex