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     What does 'healing' mean for people who have chronic illnesses without a known cure? Gut Feelings shows readers a new way to explore the problem of suffering, seeking answers in sociology, philosophy and theology. Catherine Garrett's autobiographical narrative links physical, emotional and spiritual experience with intellectual discovery. It is written for people in pain and for all who hope to alleviate suffering. As a profound meditation on life with illness, this book shows that academic and personal wisdom, offered in the form of stories, can make healing itself more widely accessible....
    

Dr. Catherine Garrett is an independent writer who now lives in the Australian country town of Braidwood. A sociologist by training, she spent sixteen years as an academic at the University of Western Sydney, retiring for medical reasons in 2004. Her work on the body, chronic illness and healing has appeared in Social Science and Medicine, the Journal of Contemporary Religion, the International Journal of Eating Disorders and Health Sociology Review, among other publications. She is a contributor to Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease (eds.Twohig and Kalitzkus, Rodopi, 2004) and the author of Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
1998).
     At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries seeks to encourage and promote cutting edge inter�disciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects and inquiry. By bringing people together from differing contexts, disciplines, professions, and vocations, the aim is to engage in conversations that are innovative, imaginative, and creatively interactive.
     Inter-Disciplinary dialogue enables people to go beyond the boundaries of what they usually encounter and share in perspectives that are new, challenging, and richly rewarding.This kind of dialogue often illuminates one's own area of work, is suggestive of new possibilities for development, and creates exciting horizons for future conversations with persons from a wide variety of national and international settings.
     By sharing cross-disciplinary insights and perspectives, ATI/PTB publications are designed to be both exploratory examinations of particular areas and issues, and rigorous inquiries into specific subjects. Books in the series are enabling resources which will encourage sustained and creative dialogue, and become the future resource for further inquiries and research.

xi Acknowledgments
Part I
5 1. The Angel
15 2. Gut Feelings
39 3. Suffering
53 4. Spirituality
Part II
71 5. Rituals
91 6. Remedies
113 7. Emotions
129 8. Experience
151 Notes