Stories of Sickness

Name: Stories of Sickness
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ISBN: 9780195151404

ISBN-10: 0195151402

ISBN-13: 9780195151404

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Howard Brody

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Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. Stories of Sickness explores the many dimensions of what illness means to the sufferers and to those around them, drawing on depictions of illness in great works of literature and in non-fiction accounts. The exploration is primarily philosophical but incorporates approaches from literature and from the medical social sciences. When it was first published in 1987, Stories of Sickness helped to inaugurate a renewed interest in…

Book details

List price: $59.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction



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


References


Index