Narrative research in health and illness / edited by Brian Hurwitz, Trisha Greenhalgh, Vieda Skultans.

Malden, Mass. : BMJ Books, 2004.

ix, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The ethicality of narrative medicine / Rita Charon -- Soldiers become casualties : doctors' accounts of the SARS epidemic / Eugene Wu ... [et al.] -- Poems from the heart : living with heart failure / Marilyn Kendall, Scott Murray -- Performance narratives in the clinical world / Cheryl Mattingly -- "I cut because it helps" : narratives of self-injury in teenage girls / Petra M. Boynton, Annabelle Auerbach -- The DIPEx project : collecting personal experiences of illness and health care / Andrew Herxheimer, Sue Ziebland -- Narratives of spirituality and religion in end-of-life care / Arthur W. Frank -- The death of the narrator / Catherine Belling -- Narrative, emotion, and understanding / Peter Goldie -- The voice of experience and the voice of the expert can they speak to each other? / Yiannis Gabriel -- Wounded or warrior? stories of being or becoming deaf / Lesley Jones, Robin Bunton -- Narrative analysis and contested allegations of Munchausen syndrome by proxy / Clive Baldwin -- Confounding the experts : the vindication of parental testimony in shaken baby syndrome / James LeFanu --

Narratives of compound loss : parents' stories from the organ retention -- Scandal / Ruth Richardson -- The power of stories over statistics : lessons from neonatal jaundice and infant airplane safety / Thomas B. Newman -- Narratives of health inequality : interpreting the determinants of health / Gareth Williams -- Narratives of displacement and identity / Vieda Skultans -- A thrice-told tale : new readings of an old story / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- The role of stories and storytelling in organisational change efforts : a field study of emerging "community of practice" within the UK national health service / Paul Bate -- Meta-narrative mapping : a new approach to the systematic review of complex evidence / Trisha Greenhalgh -- How narratives work in psychiatric science : an example from the biological psychiatry of PTSD / Allan Young -- Storying policy : constructions of risk in proposals to reform UK mental health legislation / David J. Harper -- Narrative and biological temporality / Brian Hurwitz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.