1st Edition
Health, Illness and Culture Broken Narratives
This collection of essays examines the interrelations between illness, disability, health, society, and culture. The contributors examine how "narratives" have emerged and been utilized within these areas to help those who have experienced d injury, disability, dementia, pain, grief, or psychological trauma to express their stories. Encompassing clinical case studies, ethnographic field studies and autobiographical case studies, Health, Illness and Culture offers a broad overview and critical analysis of the present state of "illness narratives" within the fields of health and social welfare.
Chapter 1: L-C. Hydén & J. Brockmeier: Introduction: The Field of Illness Narratives
Chapter 2: Jens Brockmeier: Langauge, Experience, and the “Traumatic gap”: How to Talk About 9/11?
Chapter 3: L-C. Hydén: Broken and Vicarious Voices in Narratives
Chapter 4: Maria Medved & Jens Brockmeier: Talking About the Unthinkable: Neurotrauma and the “Catastrofic Reaction”
Chapter 5: Cheryl Mattingly: Stories That Are Ready to Break
Chapter 6: Georg Drakos: Globally Distributed Silences, and Broken Narratives About HIV
Chapter 7: Arthur Frank: Taking Care of the Dead: Broken Narratives of Internment
Chapter 8: Pia Bulow: “You have to ask a little”: Troublesome storytelling about contested illness
Chapter 9: Margareta Hydén: Break-up as Narrative
Chapter 10: Mark Freeman: Dementia’s Tragic Promise
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Lars-Christer Hydén is Professor of Health Communication at Linköping University, Sweden. His main focus is on the role of narrative in the cultural interplay of illness and health.
Jens Brockmeier, a Senior Researcher at Free University Berlin, Germany, is a Visiting Professor in the Psychology Department of the University of Manitoba, Canada, and at the Center for Narrative Research of the University of East London's School of Social Science, Media, and Cultural Science.
