Narratives, Health, and Healing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narratives, Health, and Healing write by Lynn M. Harter. This book was released on 2006-04-21. Narratives, Health, and Healing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This distinctive collection explores the use of narratives in the social construction of wellness and illness. Narratives, Health, and Healing emphasizes what the process of narrating accomplishes--how it serves in the health communication process where people define themselves and present their social and relational identities. Organized into four parts, the chapters included here examine health narratives in interpersonal relationships, organizations, and public fora. The editors provide an extensive introduction to weave together the various threads in the volume, highlight the approach and contribution of each chapter, and bring to the forefront the increasingly important role of narrative in health communication. This volume offers important insights on the role of narrative in communicating about health, and it will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in health communication, health psychology, and public health. It is also relevant to medical, nursing, and allied health readers.
Stories of Illness and Healing
Stories of Illness and Healing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stories of Illness and Healing write by Sayantani DasGupta. This book was released on 2007. Stories of Illness and Healing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of women's illness narratives Stories of Illness and Healing is the first collection to place the voices of women experiencing illness alongside analytical writing from prominent scholars in the field of narrative medicine. The collection includes a variety of women's illness narratives--poetry, essays, short fiction, short drama, analyses, and transcribed oral testimonies--as well as traditional analytic essays about themes and issues raised by the narratives. Stories of Illness and Healing bridges the artificial divide between women's lives and scholarship in gender, health, and medicine. The authors of these narratives are diverse in age, ethnicity, family situation, sexual orientation, and economic status. They are doctors, patients, spouses, mothers, daughters, activists, writers, educators, and performers. The narratives serve to acknowledge that women's illness experiences are more than their diseases, that they encompass their entire lives. The pages of this book echo with personal accounts of illness, diagnosis, and treatment. They reflect the social constructions of women's bodies, their experiences of sexuality and reproduction, and their roles as professional and family caregivers. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Stories of Illness and Healing draws the connection between women's suffering and advocacy for women's lives.
Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing
Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing write by Cheryl Mattingly. This book was released on 2000. Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A valuable collection. . . . The essays in the volume are all fresh, the result of recent work, and the opening chapter by Garro and Mattingly places the current trend in narrative analysis in historical context, explaining its diverse origins (and constructs) in a range of disciplines."—Shirley Lindenbaum, author of Kuru Sorcery "A good place to consult the narrative turn in medical anthropology. Thick with the richness and diversity and stubborn resistance to interpretations of human stories of illness. An anthropological antidote for too narrow a framing of the complex tangle of ways-of-being and ways-of-telling that make medicine a space of indelibly human experiences." —Arthur Kleinman, author of The Illness Narratives
Narratives, Health, and Healing
Narratives, Health, and Healing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narratives, Health, and Healing write by Lynn M. Harter. This book was released on 2005. Narratives, Health, and Healing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Narrative in Health Care
Narrative in Health Care - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative in Health Care write by John D Engel. This book was released on 2017-11-22. Narrative in Health Care available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Narrative medicine has developed an identity already. Clinicians of many disciplines are being summoned to a practice that recognizes patients by receiving their accounts of self. Starting from different positions, the four authors have converged in a strong and shared commitment to narrative health care. They conceptualize narrative health care practices within frameworks derived from the social sciences and psychology, and, to a lesser degree, phenomenology and autobiographical theory. They relate the development of narrative medicine to relationship-centered care, patient-centered care, and complex responsive process of relating theory, positing that narrative medicine can help clinicians to develop the skills required to practice relationship-centered care. The book details - with exercises, resource texts, and abundant scholarly apparatus - how these skills can be developed and strengthened. This work will change health care. Because of its scholarly rigor, its multi-voiced sources, and its highly practical features (lists, activities, key ideas and key references, primary texts written by health care professionals and patients), this work will be a guide in the field for those who practice medicine or nursing or social work. The book establishes that there is a field to be practised, a need to practise it, and a means to develop the wherewithal to do so.
