Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Bodies Matter -- Chapter 2: On Metaprescriptive Utterances: Cancer, Breasts and Gazes -- Chapter 3: Scripting Selves: (Auto)Biographical Writing of Alzheimer Patients and Caregivers -- Chapter 4: Poststructuralist Discourses and Chronic Ailments: (Type-1) Diabetes, Epilepsy and Body Breakdowns -- Chapter 5: Communication Challenges: Autism, Partial Hearing and Parental Choices -- Chapter 6: Texts and Meaning-Making: Critical Revisitations in Ailment/ Disability-Related Research -- Chapter 7: Critical Ailment Research in Applied Sociolinguistics: Power, Perception and Social Change -- References -- Index