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This book is volume 2 in a series entitled Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology and International Health. The "Introduction to the Series" tells us that "The distinguishing characteristic of this new series is its emphasis on cultural aspects of medicine and their links to larger social contexts and concrete applicability of the anthropological endeavor" (no page number). The "forbidden narratives" of the title are two. Church recounts the stories of psychiatric consumers/survivors who endeavoured to participate in an Ontario-wide consultation process, investigating community mental health legislation. Church's own narrative of her "physical and emotional breakdown" is presented as running through and contributing toward the conduct and presentation of her research into "consumer participation" in the mental health field. Including herself--to wit, the story of her professional and academic trajectory--as a major character in her work, Church takes up a variety of challenges to positivist conceptions of knowledge and "proper research," particularly those critiques generated within political economy, feminism and post-structuralism. Church vividly...