An extraordinary paper by Mildred Blaxter published this month 'on-line' early in Sociology of Health and Illness, explores her experiences of diagnosis and investigation for lung cancer. At the centre of the paper is the problem of how the 'patient vanishes' as the evidence for disease is assembled and accumulated. Like everything Mildred Blaxter ever wrote, it is beautifully composed and written, and the paper follows a coolly analytic line, taking moments that are emotionally meaningful and very complex and subjecting them to a straight gaze. This is how autoethnography should be written, developing theoretically generalizable critique and concepts from a moment by moment case-study.
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