Hurwitz / Greenhalgh / Skultans Narrative Research in Health and Illness

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4619-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten, E-Book

This comprehensive book celebrates the coming of age of narrativein health care. It uses narrative to go beyond the patient's storyand address social, cultural, ethical, psychological,organizational and linguistic issues.
This book has been written to help health professionals andsocial scientists to use narrative more effectively in theireveryday work and writing.
The book is split into three, comprehensive sections;Narratives, Counter-narratives and Meta-narratives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hurwitz, Brian

Greenhalgh, Trisha

Skultans, Vieda

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The ethicality of narrative medicine.
2. Soldiers become casualties: doctor's accounts of the SARSepidemic.
3. Poems from the heart: living with heart failure.
4. performance narratives in the clinical world.
5. "I cut because it helps": narratives of self injury.
6. The DIPex project: collecting personal experiences.
7. Narratives of spirituality and religion in the end-of-lifecare.
8. The death of the narrator.
9. Narrative, emotion and understanding.
10. The voice of experience and the voice of the expert - canthey speak to each other?.
11. Wounded or warrior? Stories of being or becoming deaf.
12. Narrative analysis and contested allogations of Munchausensyndrome by proxy.
13. Confounding the experts: the vindication of parentaltestimony in shaken baby syndrome.
14. Narratives of compound loss: parents' stories from the organretention scandal.
15. The power of stories over statistics: lessons form neonataljaundice and infant airplane safety.
16. Narratives of health inequality: interpreting thedeterminants of health.
17. Narratives of displacement and identity.
18. A thrice-told tale: new readings of an old story.
19. The role of stories and storytelling in organisationalchange efforts: a field study of an emerging "community ofpractice" within the UK National Health Service.
20. Meta-narrative mapping: a new approach to the systematicreview of complex evidence.
21. How narratives work in psychiatric science: an example fromthe biological psychiatry of PTSD.
22. Storytelling policy: constructions of risk in proposals toreform UK mental health legislation.
23. The temporal construction of medical narratives

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Hurwitz, NHS GP, Professor of Medicine and the Arts, King's College, London.

Trish Greenhalgh is an internationally recognised academic in primary health care and trained as a GP. She joined the Department in January 2015 after previously holding professorships at University College London and Queen Mary University of London.

Vieda Skultans is the editor of Narrative Research in Health and Illness, published by Wiley.