Abstract

Four interlocking ways of knowing drove my writing of After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojourn (Left Coast Press, 2012): sociological, autoethnographic, literary, and my remembrance of things past. The writing cut across disciplinary and cultural landscapes because the ways of knowing intersect, angle off, or travel along together in tandem, creating what I think of as a sojourn, a little journey across time and space.