Explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Chronicity and the Experience of Illness
Part One. The Idea of Chronicity
Part Two. Gender and the Experience of Illness
Part Three. The Clinical Interface
Afterword: Chronicity-Time, Space, and Culture 
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

LENORE MANDERSON is a research professor with appointments in the faculties of medicine, nursing and health sciences, and arts at Monash University, Australia. Her books include Global Health Policy, Local Realities and Rethinking Wellbeing.

CAROLYN SMITH-MORRIS is an associate professor in the department of anthropology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She is the author of Diabetes among the Pima: Stories of Survival.