Part I. Transformations in social experience and subjectivity. Anthropological observation and self-formation / Paul Rabinow -- Part I. Transformations in social experience and subjectivity. The vanishing subject : the many faces of subjectivity / Amélie 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 -- Part III. Madness and social suffering. Hoarders and scrappers : madness and the social person in the interstices of the city / Anne M. Lovell -- 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 -- Part III. Madness and social suffering. 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 -- Epilogue : to live with what would otherwise be unendurable : return(s) to subjectivities / Michael M.J. Fischer. 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 / João Biehl -- Epilogue : to live with what would otherwise be unendurable : return(s) to subjectivities / Michael M.J. Fischer.
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