Narratives, health, and healing : communication theory, research, and practice / edited by Lynn M. Harter, Phyllis M. Japp, Christina S. Beck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harter, Lynn M.

Japp, Phyllis M.

Beck, Christina S.

Series:

LEA's communication series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Physician and patient.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

xvii, 516 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2005.

Summary:

This distinctive collection features the work of scholars who explore narrative attempts to understand and enact health and healing. Authors pursue the implications of health narratives for individuals engaged in personal and relational sense-making and the construction of multiple, yet perhaps incompatible, realities. Narratives, Health, and Healing emphasizes how narratives emerge as complex performances in the midst of enveloping life and social narratives. Organized into four parts, the chapters examine health narratives in interpersonal relationships, organizations, and public fora. Editors Lynn M. Harter, Phyllis M. Japp, and Christina S. Beck provide an extensive introduction to weave together the various threads in the volume, highlight the approach and contribution of each chapter, and bring to the forefront the increasingly important role of narrative in health communication.

This volume offers important insights on the role of narrative in communicating about health, and will be of great interest to scholars and students in health communication, the sociology of medicine, health psychology, and public health.

Contents:

Part I Overview of Narrative and Health Communication Theorizing / Introduction by Phyllis M. Japp, Lynn M. Harter, Christina S. Beck

1 Vital Problematics of Narrative Theorizing About Health and Healing / Lynn M. Harter, Phyllis M. Japp, Christina S. Beck 7

2 Narrating Problems and Problematizing Narratives: Linking Problematic Integration and Narrative Theory in Telling Stories About Our Health / Austin S. Babrow, Kimberly N. Kline, William K. Rawlins 31

Part II Personal Narratives and Public Dialogues / Introduction by Phyllis M. Japp

3 Becoming the Story: Narratives as Collaborative, Social Enactments of Individual, Relational, and Public Identities / Christina S. Beck 61

4 Time, Technology, and Meritocracy: The Disciplining of Women's Bodies in Narrative Constructions of Age-Related Infertility / Lynn M. Harter, Erika L. Kirby, Autumn Edwards, Andrea McClanahan 83

5 Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Narratives of a Biomedically Invisible Disease / Phyllis M. Japp, Debra K. Japp 107

6 Death as the Representative Anecdote in the Construction of the Collegiate "Binge-Drinking" Problem / Thomas Workman 131

7 State-Induced Illness and Forbidden Stories: The Role of Storytelling in Healing Individual and Social Traumas in Romania / Teodora Carabas, Lynn M. Harter 149

8 Cross-Border Mass-Mediated Health Narratives: Narrative Transparency, "Safe Sex," and Indian Viewers / Arvind Singhal, Ketan Chitnis, Ami Sengupta 169

Part III Narrating and Organizing Health Care Events and Resources / Introduction by Lynn M. Harter

9 Our Family's Physician / William K. Rawlins 197

10 Narrative Knowledge Development Among Caregivers: Stories From the Nurses' Station / Jayne Morgan-Witte 217

11 R[subscript x] Story Prescriptions: Healing Effects of Storytelling and Storylistening in the Practice of Medicine / Sunwolf, Lawrence R. Frey, Lisa Keranen 237

12 Narrative Medicine and Education in Palliative Care / Sandra L. Ragan, Tiffany Mindt, Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles 259

13 Contesting Narratives of Workplace Maternity / Patrice M. Buzzanell, Laura L. Ellingson 277

14 Wholeness in a Breaking World: Narratives as Sustenance for Peace / Magdalyn Z. Miller, Patricia Geist Martin, Kristen Cannon Beatty 295

Part IV Narrative Sense-Making About Self and Other / Introduction by Christina S. Beck

15 How I Fired My Surgeon and Embraced an Alternate Narrative / Barbara F. Sharf 325

16 "My Mom Had a Stroke": Understanding How Patients Raise and Providers Respond to Psychosocial Concerns / Wayne A. Beach, Jenny Mandelbaum 343

17 Constructing Life and Death Through Final Conversation Narratives / Maureen P. Keeley, Jody Koenig Kellas 365

18 An Examination of the Role of Narratives and Storytelling in Bereavement / Cecilia Bosticco, Teresa L. Thompson 391

19 Agency Through Narrative: Patients Managing Cancer Care in a Challenging Environment / Dan O'Hair, Denise Scannell, Sharlene Thompson 413

Afterword: Continuing the Conversation: Reflections on Our Emergent Scholarly Narratives / Christina S. Beck, Lynn M. Harter, Phyllis M. Japp 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-501) and index.

ISBN:

0805850317

0805850325

OCLC:

56798840