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1 online resource (385 pages) |
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Cover; Illness narratives in practice; Contents; List of abbreviations; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: chances and problems of illness narratives 3; 2 Illness narratives in practice: which questions do we have to face when collecting and using them?; 3 The researchers' role in re-constructing patient narratives to present them as patient experiences; 4 Stories, illness, and narrative norms; 5 Choices of illness narratives in practice: applying ideas of sampling and generalizability; 6 Illness narratives in counselling-narrative medicine and narrative ethics |
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7 An illness narrative or a social injustice narrative?8 Retelling one's life story-how narratives improve quality of life in chronic language impairment; 9 Narrative practice, neurotrauma, and rehabilitation; 10 Illness narratives in the workplace; 11 Using narratives for medical humanities in medical training; 12 The 'narrative spirit': narratives for training doctors in Korea; 13 How to use illness narratives in medical education: first teaching experiences with the German DIPEx website project; 14 Using patient narratives as source material for creative writing |
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15 Engaging the vulnerable encounter: engendering narratives for change in healthcare practice by using participatory theatre methods16 Drawing on narrative accounts of dementia in education and care; 17 Using illness narratives in clinical diagnosis: narrative reconstruction of epileptic and non-epileptic seizures and panic attacks; 18 Structural dream analysis: a narrative methodology for investigating the meaning of dream series and their development in the course of psychotherapy; 19 What's in a name? Anecdotes, experience, and the meaning of stories |
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20 Narratives in decision aids: a controversy21 Understanding and using health experiences to improve healthcare-examples from the United Kingdom; 22 Illness narratives as evidence for healthcare policy; 23 When public and private narratives diverge: media, policy advocacy, and the paradoxes of newborn screening policy; 24 Pregnancy 2.0: a corpus-based case study for the analysis of illness narratives online; 25 Changes in authenticity: perceptions of parents and youth with ADHD of the effects of stimulant medication |
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26 Illness narratives in political communication: instrumental, institutional, and social functions of political actors' public illness accountsAuthor Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Illness Narratives in Practice: Potentials and Challenges of Using Narratives in Health-related Contexts highlights the problems, challenges, and opportunities we face when using patient perspectives in practice and research in a clear format to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of this field |
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Print version record |
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Sick -- Psychology.
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Communication in medicine.
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Physician and patient.
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Sick Role
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Physician-Patient Relations
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Communication in medicine
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Physician and patient
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Sick -- Psychology
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Holmberg, Christine
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Meyer, Thorsten
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| ISBN |
9780192529404 |
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0192529404 |
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