Health, illness and culture : broken narratives / edited by Lars-Christer Hydén and Jens Brockmeier.

New York ; London : Routledge, 2008.

vi, 189 pages ; 24 cm.

Introduction: from the retold to the performed story / Lars-Christer Hydén and Jens Brockmeier -- Language, experience, and the "traumatic gap": how to talk about 9/11? / Jens Brockmeier -- Broken and vicarious voices in narratives / Lars-Christer Hydén -- Talking about the unthinkable: neurotrauma and the "catastrophic reaction" / Maria I. Medved and Jens Brockmeier -- Stories that are ready to break / Cheryl F. Mattingly -- Globally distributed silences, and broken narratives about HIV / Georg Drakos -- Caring for the dead: broken narratives of internment / Arthur W. Frank -- "You have to ask a little": troublesome storytelling about contested illness / Pia Bülow -- Break-up narratives / Margareta Hydén -- Beyond narrative: dementia's tragic promise / Mark Freeman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.