Author(s): Lynn M. Harter
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 536
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Foreword—Stories By and About Us......Page 12
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 16
I: Overview of Narrative and Health Communication Theorizing......Page 20
1 Vital Problematics of Narrative Theorizing About Health and Healing......Page 26
2 Narrating Problems and Problematizing Narratives: Linking Problematic Integration and Narrative Theory in Telling Stories About Our Health......Page 50
II: Personal Narratives and Public Dialogues......Page 72
3 Becoming the Story: Narratives as Collaborative, Social Enactments of Individual, Relational, and Public Identities......Page 80
4 Time, Technology, and Meritocracy: The Disciplining of Women’s Bodies in Narrative Constructions of Age-Related Infertility......Page 102
5 Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Narratives of a Biomedically Invisible Disease......Page 126
6 Death as the Representative Anecdote in the Construction of the Collegiate “Binge-Drinking” Problem......Page 150
7 State-Induced Illness and Forbidden Stories: The Role of Storytelling in Healing Individual and Social Traumas in Romania......Page 168
8 Cross-Border Mass-Mediated Health Narratives: Narrative Transparency, “Safe Sex,” and Indian Viewers......Page 188
III: Narrating and Organizing Health Care Events and Resources......Page 208
9 Our Family’s Physician......Page 216
10 Narrative Knowledge Development Among Caregivers: Stories From the Nurses’ Station......Page 236
11 Rx Story Prescriptions: Healing Effects of Storytelling and Storylistening in the Practice of Medicine......Page 256
12 Narrative Medicine and Education in Palliative Care......Page 278
13 Contesting Narratives of Workplace Maternity......Page 296
14 Wholeness in a Breaking World: Narratives as Sustenance for Peace......Page 314
IV: Narrative Sense-Making About Self and Other......Page 336
15 How I Fired My Surgeon and Embraced an Alternate Narrative......Page 344
16 “My Mom Had a Stroke”: Understanding How Patients Raise and Providers Respond to Psychosocial Concerns......Page 362
17 Constructing Life and Death Through Final Conversation Narratives......Page 384
18 An Examination of the Role of Narratives and Storytelling in Bereavement......Page 410
19 Agency Through Narrative: Patients Managing Cancer Care in a Challenging Environment......Page 432
Afterword: Continuing the Conversation......Page 452
Contributor Biographical Statements......Page 464
References......Page 476
Author Index......Page 522
Subject Index......Page 532
