Stories of sickness /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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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