Narrative Research in Health and Illness [Paperback]

This comprehensive book celebrates the coming of age of narrative in health care. It uses narrative to go beyond the patient's story and address social, cultural, ethical, psychological, organizational and linguistic issues.

This book has been written to help health professionals and social scientists to use narrative more effectively in their everyday work and writing.

The book is split into three, comprehensive sections; Narratives, Counter-narratives and Meta-narratives.

1. The ethicality of narrative medicine.

2. Soldiers become casualties: doctor's accounts of the SARS epidemic.

3. Poems from the heart: living with heart failure.

4. performance narratives in the clinical world.

5. I cut because it helps : narratives of self injury.

6. The DIPex project: collecting personal experiences.

7. Narratives of spirituality and religion in the end-of-life care.

8. The death of the narrator.

9. Narrative, emotion and understanding.

10. The voice of experience and the voice of the expert - can they speak to each other?.

11. Wounded or warrior? Stories of being or becoming deaf.

12. Narrative analysis and contested allogations of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

13. Confounding the experts: the vindication of parental testimony in shaken baby syndrome.

14. Narratives of compound loss: parents' stories from the organ retention scandal.

15. The power of stories over statistics: lessons form neonatal jaundice and infant airplane safety.

16. Narratives of health inequality: interpreting the determinants of health.

17. Narratives of displacement and identity.

18. A thrice-told tale: new readings of an old story.

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