Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma illustrates how
stories about ill health and suffering have been produced and received from a variety of …

Culturally powerful ideas of normalcy and deviation, individual responsibility, and what is
medically feasible shape the ways in which we live with illness and disability. The essays in …

This collection of essays examines the interrelations between illness, disability, health,
society, and culture. The contributors examine how" narratives" have emerged and been …

When illness is protracted, when there is no chance of return to the person one once was, or
when there is no hope of being “normal,” a person's very sense of self is lived in a special …

This chapter represents a re-working of my past work, distant and proximate. The illness
narrative, developed in conversation with a man who had advanced multiple sclerosis (MS) …

Autobiographical narratives of illness and disability are influential in popular and medical
discourses of illness and disability, in part because these narratives represent illness and …

Updated second edition:“A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about
narratives of illness in new directions.”—Sociology of Heath and Illness Since it was first …

This is a book that integrates what is known from a wide variety of disciplines about the
nature of storytelling and how it influences and transforms people's lives. Drawing on …

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 …

An increasing number of scholars across disciplines envision narrative as a new frontier for
advancing health-related theory, research and practice. Rhetoricians (eg, Fisher, 1984 …