1. Interdisciplinary studies, fragmented identities and psychic investments

2. Valuing lives

3. Medicine and its allied professions

4. The social construction of disability

5. Dynamics of care and control: meeting social and psychic needs

6. Causes, complexity and process of categorising 'impairment'

7. Does language disable people?

8. Investments in images

Closing comments: interdisciplinary connections, action and identity.