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Just listening: Narrative and deep illness.

Arthur W. Frank
- 01 Jan 1998 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 3, pp 197-212
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This article is published in Families, Systems, & Health.The article was published on 1998-01-01. It has received 306 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative & Storytelling.

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Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?

TL;DR: A preliminary agenda for the evidence based medicine movement’s renaissance is offered, refocusing on providing useable evidence that can be combined with context and professional expertise so that individual patients get optimal treatment.
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The Standpoint of Storyteller

TL;DR: The legitimacy of an interest in illness narratives that is therapeutic, emancipatory, and pre-occupied with ethics is defended and how qualitative methods can inform changing relationships between illness, health, medicine, and culture is considered.
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Persistent symptoms after Covid-19: qualitative study of 114 "long Covid" patients and draft quality principles for services.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted 55 individual interviews and 8 focus groups with people recruited from UK-based long Covid patient support groups, social media and snowballing to document such patients' lived experience, including accessing and receiving healthcare and ideas for improving services.
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Researching practice: the methodological case for narrative inquiry

TL;DR: The methodological case for narrative inquiry is made as a unique means to get inside the world of health promotion practice and how this form of inquiry may reveal what practitioners value most in and through their practice, and the indigenous theory or the cause-and-consequence thinking that governs their actions.
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The Body in Health and Illness

TL;DR: Perception of the body in the context of chronic illness compared with that of health is discussed and the construction of illness and health identities is explored.
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The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics

TL;DR: In this paper, the body's problem with illness is described as a Call for Stories, and a call for stories as a call-for-the-call for stories is presented.
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The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition

TL;DR: Based on twenty years of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist argues that diagnosing illness is an art tragically neglected by modern medical training, and presents a compelling case for bridging the gap between patient and doctor.
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The Meaning of Illness: A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient

S. Kay Toombs
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the Separate Worlds of Physician and Patient and the Body as Object in Illness, as well as the Healing Relationship and Implications for Medical Practice.
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Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge

TL;DR: Addressing readers on both sides of the patient-physician encounter, Kathryn Hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story--the patient's story of illness and its symptoms.