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9781405146197

Narrative Research in Health and Illness

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405146197

  • ISBN10:

    1405146192

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: BMJ Books
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The ethicality of narrative medicine
Soldiers become casualties: doctor's accounts of the SARS epidemic
Poems from the heart: living with heart failure
performance narratives in the clinical world
"I cut because it helps": narratives of self injury
The DIPex project: collecting personal experiences
Narratives of spirituality and religion in the end-of-life care
The death of the narrator
Narrative, emotion and understanding
The voice of experience and the voice of the expert - can they speak to each other?
Wounded or warrior? Stories of being or becoming deaf
Narrative analysis and contested allogations of Munchausen syndrome by proxy
Confounding the experts: the vindication of parental testimony in shaken baby syndrome
Narratives of compound loss: parents' stories from the organ retention scandal
The power of stories over statistics: lessons form neonatal jaundice and infant airplane safety
Narratives of health inequality: interpreting the determinants of health
Narratives of displacement and identity
A thrice-told tale: new readings of an old story
The role of stories and storytelling in organisational change efforts: a field study of an emerging "community of practice" within the UK National Health Service
Meta-narrative mapping: a new approach to the systematic review of complex evidence
How narratives work in psychiatric science: an example from the biological psychiatry of PTSD
Storytelling policy: constructions of risk in proposals to reform UK mental health legislation
The temporal construction of medical narratives
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