Unfitting stories : narrative approaches to disease, disability, and trauma / Valerie Raoul ... [et al.], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raoul, Valerie, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sick--Biography--History and criticism.

Sick.

People with disabilities--Biography--History and criticism.

People with disabilities.

Victims--Biography--History and criticism.

Victims.

Narrative inquiry (Research method).

Narrative medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma illustrates how stories about ill health and suffering have been produced and received from a variety of perspectives. Bringing together the work of Canadian researchers, health professionals, and people with lived experiences of disease, disability, or trauma, it addresses central issues about authority in medical and personal narratives and the value of cross- or interdisciplinary research in understanding such experiences. The book considers the aesthetic dimensions of health-related stories with

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; The Editors; INTRODUCTION: NARRATIVE FRAMES; PART I: PUBLIC FRAMING OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES; PART II: REPRESENTING THE SUBJECT; PART III: THE LARGER PICTURE; NARRATIVE CONCLUSIONS: AN EXAMPLE OF CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; References; Notes on Contributors; Index

Temporal assumptions: aging with Cystic Fibrosis / J. Daniel Schubert.

Notes:

Includes contributions made to the research project funded by the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, 1999-2004, and presentations at a conference held in May 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-335) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610908011

9781280908019

1280908017

9781554581214

1554581214

OCLC:

753479574