Narrative matters in medical contexts across disciplines

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Label

Narrative matters in medical contexts across disciplines

Statement of responsibility

Edited by Franziska Gygax, Miriam A. Locher, University of Basel

Contributor

• Gygax, Franziska
• Locher, Miriam A., 1972-

Editor

• Gygax, Franziska
• Locher, Miriam A., 1972-

Subject

• Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
• Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
• Medical writing
• Medical writing
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Patients' writings
• Patients' writings
• Sick -- Psychology
• Sick -- Psychology

Language

eng

Summary

This collection of original chapters gives center stage to the concept of {u2018}narrative{u2019} in medical contexts. The contributors come from the disciplines of literary and cultural studies, linguistics, psychology, and medicine and work with texts as diverse as autobiographies, graphic novels, Renaissance medical treatises and reports, short stories, reflective writing, creative writing, and online narratives. The interdisciplinary dialogue shows the richness and scope of the concept {u2018}narrative{u2019} and demonstrates how crucial it is for practices in the medical context as well as in the contributing disciplines. The collection raises awareness of the great variety and multivocality of narratives on the experience of illness besides paying heed to the many different positions and angles from which these narratives can be perceived, read, and analyzed. The wide range of approaches assembled in this collection provides a comprehensive view on illness and health and on the multiple ways in which they are represented in narrative. --Provided by publisher

Member of

• Studies in narrative, v. 20

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

809/.93561

Index

index present

LC call number

PE1425

LC item number

.N35 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Studies in Narrative,

Series volume

volume 20