Narrative Research in Health and Illness

Narrative Research in Health and Illness By
2004 | 466 Pages | ISBN: 0727917927 | PDF | 4 MB
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.Content: Chapter 1 The Ethicality of Narrative Medicine (pages 21-36): Rita CharonChapter 2 Soldiers Become Casualties: Doctors' Accounts of the Sars Epidemic (pages 37-51): Eugene Wu, Frances Rapport, Kip Jones and Trisha GreenhalghChapter 3 Poems from the Heart: Living with Heart Failure (pages 52-72): Marilyn Kendall and Scott MurrayChapter 4 Performance Narratives in the Clinical World (pages 73-94): Cheryl MattinglyChapter 5 "I cut because it helps": Narratives of Self?Injury in Teenage Girls (pages 95-114): Petra M Boynton and Annabelle AuerbachChapter 6 The DIPEx Project: Collecting Personal Experiences of Illness and Health Care (pages 115-131): Andrew Herxheimer and Sue ZieblandChapter 7 Narratives of Spirituality and Religion in End?of?Life Care (pages 132-145): Arthur W FrankChapter 8 The Death of the Narrator (pages 146-155): Catherine BellingChapter 9 Narrative, Emotion, and Understanding (pages 156-167): Peter GoldieChapter 10 The Voice of Experience and the Voice of the Expert ? Can they Speak to each Other? (pages 168-186): Yiannis GabrielChapter 11 Wounded or Warrior? Stories of Being or Becoming Deaf (pages 187-204): Lesley Jones and Robin BuntonChapter 12 Narrative Analysis and Contested Allegations of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (pages 205-222): Clive BaldwinChapter 13 Confounding the Experts: The Vindication of Parental Testimony in Shaken Baby Syndrome (pages 223-238): James Le FanuChapter 14 Narratives of Compound Loss: Parents' Stories from the Organ Retention Scandal (pages 239-256): Ruth RichardsonChapter 15 The Power of Stories Over Statistics: Lessons from Neonatal Jaundice and Infant Airplane Safety (pages 257-276): Thomas B NewmanChapter 16 Narratives of Health Inequality: Interpreting the Determinants of Health (pages 277-291): Gareth WilliamsChapter 17 Narratives of Displacement and Identity (pages 292-308): Vieda SkultansChapter 18 A Thrice?Told Tale: New Readings of an Old Story (pages 309-324): Catherine Kohler RiessmanChapter 19 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 (pages 325-348): Paul BateChapter 20 Meta?Narrative Mapping: A New Approach to the Systematic Review of Complex Evidence (pages 349-381): Trisha GreenhalghChapter 21 How Narratives Work in Psychiatric Science: An Example from the Biological Psychiatry of PTSD (pages 382-396): Allan YoungChapter 22 Storying Policy: Constructions of Risk in Proposals to Reform UK Mental Health Legislation (pages 397-413): David J HarperChapter 23 The Temporal Construction of Medical Narratives (pages 414-427): Brian Hurwitz