1. Editorial: Why this new journal?

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 7

2. Disease and illness Distinctions between professional and popular ideas of sickness

   • Leon Eisenberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 23

3. The heart of what's the matter The semantics of illness in Iran

   • Byron J. Good

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 58

4. Psychiatric sequelae of Amok

   • E. K. Tan
   • John E. Carr

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 67

5. Puerto Rican spiritism

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 95

6. The cosmological and performative significance of a Thai cult of healing through meditation

   • S. J. Tambiah

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 132