| Dedication/Preface/Acknowledgments | |
| Ch. 1 | What are we about and for whom are we writing? | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Caring about nausea and vomiting: an overview of irremediable suffering | 14 |
| Ch. 3 | Nausea and vomiting matter: an overview | 30 |
| Ch. 4 | Intended antiemetic drugs: the case for caring, caution, consumerism, and reflection | 65 |
| Ch. 5 | Consumers' corner and clinical trials: what does the consumer get to read? | 108 |
| Ch. 6 | Drugs to prevent and control nausea and vomiting: a survey of trial reports published since 1950 | 119 |
| Ch. 7 | Puzzles and possibilities confronted in experimental, neuro-endocrine/pharmacoanatomical work | 138 |
| Ch. 8 | Brain - enteric regions and messengers: the latest picture in pictures | 161 |
| Ch. 9 | Neuropeptides and some neurotransmitters | 177 |
| Ch. 10 | The economic impact of nausea and vomiting | 190 |
| Ch. 11 | Pregnancy nausea and vomiting: empirical but enigmatic | 209 |
| Ch. 12 | Pregnancy nausea and vomiting: some new explanatory hypotheses | 225 |
| Ch. 13 | Pregnancy nausea and vomiting: further explorations in theory | 246 |
| Ch. 14 | Evolutionary biology: a radical view | 269 |
| Ch. 15 | Allergy and immunology | 319 |
| Ch. 16 | Anesthesiology | 325 |
| Ch. 17 | Comforting | 340 |
| Ch. 18 | Complementary therapies | 346 |
| Ch. 19 | Emergency medicine/trauma/poisoning | 360 |
| Ch. 20 | Endocrinology | 368 |
| Ch. 21 | Gastroenterology | 383 |
| Ch. 22 | General surgery | 392 |
| Ch. 23 | Hematology | 402 |
| Ch. 24 | Infectious diseases | 411 |
| Ch. 25 | Neurology | 419 |
| Ch. 26 | Obstetrics and gynecology | 424 |
| Ch. 27 | Oncology | 437 |
| Ch. 28 | Ophthalmology | 452 |
| Ch. 29 | Otolaryngology | 457 |
| Ch. 30 | Pediatrics including pediatric oncology | 465 |
| Ch. 31 | Psychiatry | 475 |
| Ch. 32 | Sports and space medicine | 486 |
| Ch. 33 | Essay and assay | 501 |
| Ch. 34 | On using the Internet for knowledge acquisition | 543 |
| Appendix: Apothegms: expert views | 545 |
| Glossary: acronyms and abbreviations | 546 |
| References | 550 |
| Further reading | 575 |
| Index | 607 |