●Chapter One The Liminal Physician Writers: A Tour of the Field of Physician Writing Chapter Two Physician, Heal Thyself: Writing about Pain
●Ⅰ .The Pain of Witnessing Pain,: Jack Coulehan’s “D Day, 1994”
●Ⅱ.The Pain of Killing Pain: Richard Selzer’s “Mercy”
●Ⅲ.The Amnestic Healer: Trauma and Memory in Richard Selzer’s Raising the Dead
●Ⅳ.Conclusion
●Chapter Three The Gender L:ine in the Medical Profession
●Ⅰ.Liminal Masculinity in Richard Selzer’s Knife Song Korea
●Ⅱ . Against Abstraction: Perri Klass’s Other Women’s Children
●Ⅲ.Conclusion
●Chapter Four Transition and Communitas: Ethnic Physicians and the AIDS Epidemic Ⅰ.Home in the Making: Abraham Verghese’s My Own Country:A Doctor’s Story of a Town, and It.s People in the Age of AIDS
●Ⅱ.“The Dream of You Dreaming Me” : Rafael Campo’s “You Bring: out the Doctor in Me”
●Ⅲ.Conclusion
●Chapter Five Healing on the Edge: Stories of Confession and Grief
●Works Cited