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Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ont
Acknowledgements; The Editors; INTRODUCTION: NARRATIVE FRAMES; PART I: PUBLIC FRAMING OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES; PART II: REPRESENTING THE SUBJECT; PART III: THE LARGER PICTURE; NARRATIVE CONCLUSIONS: AN EXAMPLE OF CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS;...
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Acknowledgements; The Editors; INTRODUCTION: NARRATIVE FRAMES; PART I: PUBLIC FRAMING OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES; PART II: REPRESENTING THE SUBJECT; PART III: THE LARGER PICTURE; NARRATIVE CONCLUSIONS: AN EXAMPLE OF CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; References; Notes on Contributors; Index. This work illustrates how stories about ill health and suffering have been produced and received from a variety of perspectives. Bringing together the work of Canadian researchers, health professionals, and people with lived experiences of disease, disability, or trauma, it addresses central issues about authority in medical and personal narratives and the value of cross- or interdisciplinary research in understanding such experiences. The book considers the aesthetic dimensions of health-related stories with literary readings that look at how personal accounts of disease, disability, and trauma are crafted by writers and filmmakers into published works.; Topics range from psychiatric hospitalisation and aestheticising cancer, to father-daughter incest in film. The collection also deals with the therapeutic or transformative effect of stories with essays about men, sport, and spinal cord injury; narrative teaching at L'Arche (a faith-based network of communities inclusive of people with developmental disabilities); and the construction of a "schizophrenic" identity.; A final section examines the polemical functions of narrative, directing attention to the professional and political contexts within which stories are constructed and exchanged
