Narrative research in health and illness /

• Other Authors: Hurwitz, Brian (Editor), Greenhalgh, Trisha (Editor), Skultans, Vieda (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, Mass. BMJ Books 2004
• Subjects: Narration; hysician-Patient Relations; Medical History Taking; Communication; Patients > psychology
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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 sci...

Table of Contents:

• The ethicality of narrative medicine / Rita Charon
• Soldiers become casualties: doctors' accounts of the SARS epidemic / Eugene Wu ... [et al.]
• Poems from the heart: living with heart failure / Marilyn Kendall, Scott Murray
• Performance narratives in the clinical world / Cheryl Mattingly
• "I cut because it helps": narratives of self-injury in teenage girls / Petra M. Boynton, Annabelle Auerbach
• The DIPEx project: collecting personal experiences of illness and health care / Andrew Herxheimer, Sue Ziebland
• Narratives of spirituality and religion in end-of-life care / Arthur W. Frank
• The death of the narrator / Catherine Belling
• Narrative, emotion, and understanding / Peter Goldie
• The voice of experience and the voice of the expert - can they speak to each other? / Yiannis Gabriel
• Wounded or warrior? stories of being or becoming deaf / Lesley Jones, Robin Bunton
• Narrative analysis and contested allegations of Munchausen syndrome by proxy / Clive Baldwin
• Confounding the experts: the vindication of parental testimony in shaken baby syndrome / James Le Fanu
• Narratives of compound loss: parents' stories from the organ retention scandal / Ruth Richardson
• The power of stories over statistics: lessons from neonatal jaundice and infant airplane safety / Thomas B. Newman
• Narratives of health inequality: interpreting the determinants of health / Gareth Williams
• Narratives of displacement and identity / Vieda Skultans
• A thrice-told tale: new readings of an old story / Catherine Kohler Riessman
• The role of stories and storytelling in organisational change efforts: a field study of emerging "community of practice" within the UK National Health Service / Paul Bate
• Meta-narrative mapping: a new approach to the systematic review of complex evidence / Trisha Greenhalgh
• How narratives work in psychiatric science: an example from the biological psychiatry of PTSD / Allan Young
• Storying policy: constructions of risk in proposals to reform UK mental health legislation / David J. Harper
• The temporal construction of medical narratives / Brian Hurwitz.