Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing

Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing
ISBN-10
0520218256
ISBN-13
9780520218253
Category
Social Science
Pages
302
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Authors
Cheryl Mattingly, Linda C. Garro

Description

"A valuable collection. . . . The essays in the volume are all fresh, the result of recent work, and the opening chapter by Garro and Mattingly places the current trend in narrative analysis in historical context, explaining its diverse origins (and constructs) in a range of disciplines."—Shirley Lindenbaum, author of Kuru Sorcery "A good place to consult the narrative turn in medical anthropology. Thick with the richness and diversity and stubborn resistance to interpretations of human stories of illness. An anthropological antidote for too narrow a framing of the complex tangle of ways-of-being and ways-of-telling that make medicine a space of indelibly human experiences." —Arthur Kleinman, author of The Illness Narratives

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