In research on health and illness, studies using a narrative approach are gaining ground in
a context where a statistical quantitative approach as well as an 'objective'approach to …

There is currently considerable renewed interest in narrative analysis in the humanities,
social sciences and medicine. Illness narratives, particularly those of patients or lay people …

As a result of continuous social change, it seems more and more difficult today to produce
biographical certainty in the sense of clear expectations and the shaping of one's own life …

This paper contributes to the development of theory and research on inequalities in health.
Our central premise is that these are currently limited because they fail adequately to …

In qualitative health research many researchers use a narrative approach to study lay health
concepts and experiences. In this article, I explore the theoretical linkages between the …

Risk has become a dominant way to interpret who gets sick and why. A distinction has been
drawn between two categories of risk: those arising from the environment, and those …

A recent structured review of the qualitative risk perception literature (Hawkes and Rowe)
found that research has tended to focus on a narrow range of samples, using a limited range …

Health psychology is limited by its almost exclusive use of a positivist quantitative research
paradigm, and the adoption and use of qualitative methods by health psychologists will …

Much of what we believe we know about identity and health derives from life narratives. Data
may range from responses to semi-structured research questions to long …

Illness narratives play a central role in social studies of health and illness, serving as both a
key theoretical focus and a popular research method. Despite this, relatively little work has …