Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice

by Harter, Lynn M.; Japp, Phyllis M.; Beck, Christina S.

• ISBN13: 9781410613455
• ISBN10: 1410613453
• Copyright: 2005-06-29
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This volume explores how narratives are used in the social construction of wellness and illness. It is intended for scholars and advanced students in health communication and applied health disciplines.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Overview of Narrative and Health Communication Theorizing

Introduction

Vital Problematics of Narrative Theorizing About Health and Healing

Narrating Problems and Problematizing Narratives: Linking Problematic Integration and Narrative Theory in Telling Stories About Our Health

Personal Narratives and Public Dialogues

Introduction

Becoming the Story: Narratives as Collaborative, Social Enactments of Individual, Relational, and Public Identities

Time, Technology, and Meritocracy: The Disciplining of Women's Bodies in Narrative Constructions of Age-Related Infertility

Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Narratives of a Bio-Medically Invisible Disease

Death as the Representative Anecdote in the Construction of Collegiate "Binge Drinking" Problem

State-Induced Illness and Forbidden Stories: The Role of Storytelling in Healing Individual and Social Traumas in Romania

Cross-Border Mass-Mediated Health Narratives: Narrative Transparency, "Safe Sex," and Indian Viewers

Narrating and Organizing Health Care Events and Resources

Introduction

Our Family's Physician

Narrative Knowledge Development Among Caregivers: Stories From the Nurse's Station

Rx Story Prescriptions: Healing Effects of Storytelling and Storylistening in the Practice of Medicine

Narrative Medicine and Education in Palliative Care

Contesting Narratives of Workplace Maternity

Wholeness in a Breaking World: Narratives as Sustenance for Peace

Narrative Sense-Making About Self and Other

Introduction

How I Fired My Surgeon and Embraced an Alternate Narrative

"My Mom Had a Stroke": Understanding How Patients Raise and Providers Respond to Psychosocial Concerns

Constructing Life and Death Through Final Conversation Narratives

An Examination of the Role of Narratives and Storytelling in Bereavement

Agency Through Narrative: Patients Managing Cancer Care in a Challenging Environment

Afterword: Continuing the Conversation: Reflections on Our Emergent Scholarly Narratives

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