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

Title: Unfitting stories : narrative approaches to disease, disability, and trauma / Valerie Raoul ... [et al.], editors.
Publication: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007.

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Raoul, Valerie, 1941-

Description

xiv, 360 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This work 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 literary readings that look at how personal accounts of disease, disability, and trauma are crafted by writers and filmmakers into published works. Topics range from psychiatric hospitalisation and aestheticising cancer, to father-daughter incest in film. The collection also deals with the therapeutic or transformative effect of stories with essays about men, sport, and spinal cord injury; narrative teaching at L'Arche (a faith-based network of communities inclusive of people with developmental disabilities); and the construction of a "schizophrenic" identity. A final section examines the polemical functions of narrative, directing attention to the professional and political contexts within which stories are constructed and exchanged. Topics include ableist limits on self-narration; drug addiction and the disease model; and narratives of trauma and Aboriginal post-secondary students. "Unfitting Stories" is essential reading for researchers using narrative methods or materials, for teachers, students, and professionals working in the field of health services, and for concerned consumers of the health care system. It deals with practical problems relevant to policy-makers as well as theoretical issues of interest to specialists in bioethics, gender analysis, and narrative theory.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

Genre/Form

Personal Narrative
Memoirs.

Note

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.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Introduction : narrative frames -- Making sense of disease, disability, and trauma : normative and disruptive stories / Valerie Raoul, Connie Canam, Angela Henderson and Carla Paterson -- Interdisciplinarity and postdisciplinarity in health research in Canada / Judy Z. Segal -- pt. I. Public framing of personal narratives -- Introduction : aesthetics, authenticity, and audience / Valerie Raoul, Connie Canam, Angela Henderson and Carla Paterson -- Authorizing the memoir form : Lauren Slater's three memoirs of mental illness / Helen M. Buss -- Telling trauma : two narratives of psychiatric hospitalization / Hilary Clark -- Between two deaths : AIDS, trauma, and temporality in the work of Paul Monette / Lisa Diedrich.

ISBN

9780889205093 (alk. paper)
0889205094 (alk. paper)

OCLC

72150201
SCSB-12761803

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library