Narrative and the cultural construction of illness and healing
By: edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Linda C. Garro.
Contributors: Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951-; Garro, Linda C., 1955-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Social medicine.; Medical anthropology.; Discourse analysis, Narrative.; Medicine and psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Narrative as construct and construction / Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly; title: "Fiction" and "historicity" in doctors' stories : social and narrative dimensions of learning medicine / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good; title: Cultural knowledge as resource in illness narratives : remembering through accounts of illness / Linda C. Garro; title: Strategic suffering : illness narratives as social empowerment among Mexican cancer patients / Linda M. Hunt; title: Physician autobiography : narrative and the social history of medicine / Donald Pollock; title: "Even if we don't have children [we] can live" : stigma and infertility in South India / Catherine Kohler Riessman; title: Broken narratives : clinical encounters and the poetics of illness experience / Laurence J. Kirmayer; title: Emergent narratives / Cheryl Mattingly; title: With life in one's lap : the story of an eye/I (or two) / Unni Wikan; title: Psychotherapy in clients' trajectories across contexts / Ole Dreier; title: Narrative turns / Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly.