Narrative Research in Health and Illness

This comprehensive book celebrates the coming of age of narrative in health care. It uses narrative to go beyond the patient's story and address social, cultural, ethical, psychological, organizational and linguistic issues.This book has been written to help health professionals and social scientists to use narrative more effectively in their everyday work and writing.The book is split into three, comprehensive sections; Narratives, Counter-narratives and Meta-narratives.

Brian Hurwitz, NHS GP, Professor of Medicine and the Arts, King's College, London.

Trish Greenhalgh is an internationally recognised academic in primary health care and trained as a GP. She joined the Department in January 2015 after previously holding professorships at University College London and Queen Mary University of London.

Vieda Skultans is the editor of Narrative Research in Health and Illness, published by Wiley.

Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Narratives	p. 21
The ethicality of narrative medicine	p. 23
Solders become casualties: doctors' accounts of the SARS epidemic	p. 37
Poems from the heart: living with heart failure	p. 52
Performance narratives in the clinical world	p. 73
"I cut because it helps": narratives of self-injury in teenage girls	p. 95
The DIPEx project: collecting personal experiences of illness and health care	p. 115
Narratives of spirituality and religion in end-of-life car	p. 132
The death of the narrator	p. 146
Narrative, emotion, and understanding	p. 156
The voice of experience and the voice of the expert - can they speak to each other?	p. 168
Counter-narratives	p. 187
Wounded or warrior? Stories of being or becoming deaf	p. 189
Narrative analysis and contested allegations of Munchausen syndrome by proxy	p. 205
Confounding the experts: the vindication of parental testimony in shaken baby syndrome	p. 223
Narratives of compound loss: parents' stories from the organ retention scandal	p. 239
The power of stories over statistics: lessons from neonatal jaundice and infant airplane safety	p. 257
Meta-narratives	p. 277
Narratives of health inequality: interpreting the determinants of health	p. 279
Narratives of displacement and identity	p. 292
A thrice-told tale: new readings of an old story	p. 309
The role of stories and storytelling in organisational change efforts: a field study of an emerging "community of practice" within the UK National Health Service	p. 325
Meta-narrative mapping: a new approach to the systematic review of complex evidence	p. 349
How narratives work in psychiatric science: an example from the biological psychiatry of PTSD	p. 382
Storying policy: constructions of risk in proposals to reform UK mental health legislation	p. 397
The temporal construction of medical narratives	p. 414
Index	p. 428
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