The wounded storyteller : body, illness, and ethics


Arthur W. Frank
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013
Omfang
1 online resource (233 p.)
Utgave
2nd ed.
Opplysninger
1. utg. 1995. - Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; One. When Bodies Need Voices; Two. The Body's Problem with Illness; Three. Illness as a Call for Stories; Four. The Restitution Narrative: Illness in the Imaginary; Five. The Chaos Narrative: Mute Illness; Six. The Quest Narrative: Illness and the Communicative Body; Seven. Testimony; Eight. The Wound as Half Opening; Notes; Index. - In At the Will of the Body, Arthur Frank told the story of his own illnesses, heart attack and cancer. That book ended by describing the existence of a ""remission society,"" whose members all live with some form of illness or disability. The Wounded Storyteller is their collective portrait.Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine; they are wounded storytellers. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering; when they turn their diseases into stories, they find healing.Drawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anat
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Discourse analysis, Narrative
Sick - Psychology
Attitude
Attitude to Health
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ISBN
0226259927. - 0226259935

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