The stories in context -- Society and culture. Galen's life ; Diseases and death in Rome ; Galen and Greek culture ; Galen's corpus ; Galen's audience : "friends and companions" ; Professionalism and social status -- Narrative and medicine. Hippocratic case histories ; Case histories after the Hippocratic corpus ; Inscriptions and the Cult of Asclepius ; Written tradition and clinical experience ; Case histories in Galen's work ; Memory and autobiography -- Place and time -- Context and authenticity -- Place. City ; Country ; Houses -- Time. Chronology ; Medical time ; Time and narrative structure -- The contest : rivals, specators, and judges -- Agon -- Rivals. Other physicians ; Confrontation ; Demonstrating superiority -- Audience. Witness and judge ; The addressee ; Friends ; Rivals and patients ; Family and household ; Husbands, fathers, and masters -- Failure -- Case history and healing narrative -- The patient -- Presenting the patient. Names and terms ; Temperament and constitution ; Age ; Sex : female patients ; Social information ; Conclusion -- The patient as character. The patient's perspective ; The patient's lifestyle ; Character and emotion ; Conclusion -- Physician and patient -- The physician's perspective : "I" and "we" -- Physician and patient. Intimacy ; Obedience ; Perceiving the patient -- Fever -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Works cited from Galen's corpus -- Appendix B. Table of cases.