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The Self in Health and Illness - Patients, Professionals and Narrative Identity (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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The Self in Health and Illness - Patients, Professionals and Narrative Identity (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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This book contains a foreword by Elliot G Mishler - professor of
Social Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School. Patients' views of their identity change with illness, as
do health professionals' views of them. This book discusses how and
why this happens, and examines how more awareness of this
phenomenon can lead to better care. Providing examples from diverse
clinical settings, "The Self in Health and Illness" brings together
writers from a range of backgrounds including health science,
anthropology, sociology, psychology, nursing, medical ethics and
healthcare. It considers the narrative self (or constructions of
identity) and its place within healthcare and the medical
humanities, and assists in clarifying the understanding of 'self'
in the context of illness, health and medicine. An enlightening
read for all doctors, especially those with an interest in medical
humanities, this anthology is also invaluable for undergraduate and
postgraduate students of medical humanities, researchers in health
sciences and medical ethics. It will also be of great interest to
medical anthropologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and other
healthcare professionals. 'If you ask people questions about their
lives they tell stories that express some version of "who" they
are. Within the healthcare field, narrative researchers from
various health professions and social science disciplines have been
particularly interested in the potential impact of disability and
illness on patient identities. What we find here is an array of
quite systematic approaches to the complexities with which people
narrate, perform, and possibly transform their identities through
their stories. This is a serious undertaking and the editors and
authors of these papers treat it with deep respect for our common
struggle to make sense of our lives by achieving identities we can
live with.' - Elliot G Mishler, in the Foreword.
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