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Let me tell you a story: narratives and narration in health communication research
Cecilia Bosticco,Teresa L. Thompson +1 more
- pp 49-72
TLDR
The role of narratives and stories in the health, healing, coping, and dying processes has been examined in this article, where the authors provide an overview of how this approach has come to be applied within the area of healthcommunication.Abstract:
The area of study known as health communication has traditionally been a very
empirical, social scientific field of research. In the last fifteen years, however,
researchers have begun expanding the horizons of health communication by
employing and legitimizing alternative approaches to the understanding of
communicative processes as they relate to health and illness and to the delivery
of health care. Notable amongst those approaches is an application of narrative
theory and an examination of the role of narratives and stories in the health,
healing, coping, and dying processes. This chapter will provide an overview
of how this approach has come to be applied within the area of health
communication. It will begin with a conceptualization of narrative and the
process of narration. The overarching social functions of narration will be
discussed, followed by an exploration of varying perspectives on narrative and
narration. The focus will then move to a more specific application of the
concepts of narrative and narration to health, healing, illness, and coping.
Discussion will focus on narration as it functions to facilitate understanding of
patients and health conditions, on narration in the self-identify process and
how that relates to coping and healing, the broader roles of narration in coping
and healing (beyond identity concerns), narration as it helps us understand the
nature of health and illness, narration as it impacts healing, and narration as
it helps tell us how to live. Particularly interesting and insightful examples of
the application of narrative theory and the examination of health/illness/coping
narratives will be highlighted.read more
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Emerging Narrative Forms of Knowledge Representation in the Health Sciences: Two Texts in a Postmodern Context
TL;DR: The author’s aim is to “open up” the provocative domain of ideas about knowledge representation and explain how the forms operate.