Narrative and the cultural construction of illness and healing / edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Linda C. Garro.
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- [2000]
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Description
"Inspired by the possibilities of narrative, the essays in this direction-setting volume present stories drawn from a range of ethnographic contexts. Stories of illness and healing are often arresting in their power, and they can illuminate aspects of practices and experiences surrounding illness that might otherwise be neglected. Recognizing the value of increased theoretical consciousness among those eliciting and analyzing narratives, these contributors explore narrative from a variety of perspectives"--Publisher description.
Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
Physical description
ix, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Contents
Narrative as construct and construction / Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly -- "Fiction" and "historicity" in doctors' stories : social and narrative dimensions of learning medicine / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- Cultural knowledge as resource in illness narratives : remembering through accounts of illness / Linda C. Garro -- Strategic suffering : illness narratives as social empowerment among Mexican cancer patients / Linda M. Hunt -- Physician autobiography : narrative and the social history of medicine / Donald Pollock -- "Even if we don't have children [we] can live" : stigma and infertility in South India / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- Broken narratives : clinical encounters and the poetics of illness experience / Laurence J. Kirmayer -- Emergent narratives / Cheryl Mattingly -- With life in one's lap : the story of an eye/I (or two) / Unni Wikan -- Psychotherapy in clients' trajectories across contexts / Ole Dreier -- Narrative turns / Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Location Status History of MedicineBU /NAROpen shelves
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ISBN
- 0520218248
- 9780520218246
- 0520218256
- 9780520218253