Stories of sickness /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brody, Howard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Storytelling in medicine
  • The nature and complexities of narrative
  • Dimensions of sickness
  • Sickness, life stories, and self-respect
  • Types of stories about sickness
  • Sick roles : practices and life plans
  • How sickness alters experience
  • Sickness and social relations
  • Stories of life with disability
  • Maladaptive ways of being sick
  • What is narrative ethics?
  • How does one do narrative ethics?
  • Rigor in narrative judgements
  • Ethics and the life-span narrative
  • Conclusion : the patient-health professional relationship as a narrative