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Stories of sickness

Title: Stories of sickness / Howard Brody.
Author: Brody, Howard.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003.

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xii, 295 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

To understand the human meaning of illness, we must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. This book explores the many dimensions of what illness means to the suffers and to those around them, drawing on depictions of illness in great works of literature as well as on non-fiction accounts. For this revised edition, Stories of Sickness has been extensively updated and expanded, especially with new material on narrative studies and on narrative ethics.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Storytelling in Medicine -- The Nature and Complexities of Narrative -- Dimensions of Sickness -- Sickness, Life Stories, and Self-Respect -- Types of Stories about Sickness -- Sick Roles: Practices and Life Plans -- How Sickness Alters Experience -- Sickness and Social Relations -- Stories of Life with Disability -- Maladaptive Ways of Being Sick -- What Is Narrative Ethics? -- How Does One Do Narrative Ethics? -- Rigor in Narrative Judgments -- Ethics and the Life-Span Narrative -- Conclusion: The Patient-Health Professional Relationship as a Narrative.

ISBN

0195151399
9780195151398
0195151402
9780195151404
9780199759798
0199759790

LCCN

2002022448

OCLC

ocm49248920
49248920
SCSB-1271380

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Princeton University Library