A W Frank
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 22534 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A W Frank |
| PRENOMES | A W |
| SOBRENOME | Frank |
| ASSINATURA | FRANK A W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6345-2387 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 139 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 570 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1873 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Becoming a cancer survivor
The article makes cancer survivorship the topic of an experiment in a form of writing we call dialogical response. First, in the style of autoethnography, each author presents an account of her or his long-term survivorship of cancer and the issues that involves. Less conventionally, we then respond each to the other's story. The article seeks to contribute to an in-depth understanding of long-term cancer survivorship. More important, we offer it…
Stories and Shame in Front‐Line Medicine
This review of Jay Baruch's Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER considers the book's contributions, including its explorations of the clinical dilemma of working with patients’ stories that are fragmented, how easily clinicians can miss crucial parts of patients’ stories and how that affects care, and the “agonizing compromises” between what patients need and what institutions can provide. Baruch ackno…
Eating in Theory by Annemarie Mol, Durham and London
Do I Look at You with Love
Character
Metagnosis
Late-Life Love
Reviewed by: Late-Life Love: A Memoir by Susan Gubar Arthur W. Frank (bio) Susan Gubar. Late-Life Love: A Memoir. New York: Norton, 2019. 352 pp. Hardcover, $25.95. If Late-Life Love were only a study of novels, poetry, and films in which persons of a certain age fall in love, then it would not be reviewed in this journal. The book's subtitle opens its second strand, which is a memoir of a period of time—maybe a year but it's vague—in which Susan…
The Voices that Accompany Me
Not Whether but How
The ethics of telling stories about other people become questionable as soon as humans learn to talk. But the stakes get higher when health care professionals tell stories about those whom they serve. But for all the problems that come with such stories, I do not believe it is either practical or desirable for bioethicists to attempt to legislate an end to this storytelling. What we need instead is narrative nuance. We need to understand how to t…
Who’s There?”
Vulnerable reading asks how literary works can be useful as companions to people who suffer; its focus is literature as solace. Questions of why we should turn to Shakespeare to express suffering, and why to poetic literature, are considered. An exemplary reading of Hamlet discusses three levels of vulnerable reading: the play as mirror in which readers can see reflections of their own troubles and gain new expressive possibilities for themselves…
Narrative-based Practice in Health and Social Care
Beer, David, Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts
Suffering, the social scientific imagination, and health Iain Wilkinson and Arthur Kleinman, A Passion for Society
Does Medicine Need Ultimate Values
A Medical Pedagogy of Mutual Suffering
Who's afflicted? Early in Nicole Piemonte's book Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice, she quotes an email from a physician whose voice sets the problem and tone. He describes himself as someone “who has intended well” but then “nearly burned out because of the insidious process of physician formation that left me a mess at the threshold of the suffering of other human beings.” His confessional manifesto regrets “t…
What Is Narrative Therapy and How Can It Help Health Humanities
Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities
In recent years, both within and beyond academic and clinical spheres, medical and health humanities have become increasingly influential. Drawing from interdisciplinary fields in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, medical and health humanities present unique lenses for considering nuanced spaces and lived experiences of health and health care; they also help challenge traditional ways that medicine and health care are understood and …
The Force of Embodiment
This article examines two stories that foreground significant practices of embodiment: violence and altruism. The stories tackle the notions of violent and altruistic bodies, and both seem to have clear ethical implications. They are interpreted through two theoretical interests that are central to studies of the body: habitus and networks. The first story is from Norbert Elias, who has published two major works: The Civilizing Process (1984) and…
Bioethics and “Rightness”
If bioethics seeks to affect what people do and don't do as they respond to the practical issues that confront them, then it is useful to take seriously people's sense of rightness. Rightness emerges from the fabric of a life—including the economy of its geography, the events of its times, its popular culture—to be what the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls a predisposition. It is the product of a way of life and presupposes continuing to live th…
An illness of one’s own
The author reviews his own experiences of writing an illness memoir, asking what makes such storytelling possible. How telling stories about suffering can precipitate healing is then considered. Finally, the argument pivots to health care research, asking what sort of research would be consistent with the ideas about illness that have been expressed
Writing Oneself Back In
Writing Oneself Back In:Narratives of Care, Grief, and Loss Arthur W. Frank (bio) Alexandra Butler, Walking the Night Road: Coming of Age in Grief. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 184 pp. Paperback, $27.00. Christina Crosby. A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain. New York: New York University Press, 2016. 208 pp. Hardcover, $22.95. Each of these two extraordinary books has illness or disability as its primary focus, yet to call ei…
The Theater of War
Living With Alzheimer's
Ann Jurecic’s Illness as Narrative
Hilde Lindemann’s Holding and Letting Go
The Wounded Storyteller
What Is Dialogical Research, and Why Should We Do It
Social scientists have explored the writing of Russian literary philosopher Bakhtin from a variety of perspectives, but little attempt has been made to apply Bakhtin's conception of dialogue to the conduct of research and the production of research reports. The author's questions relate to what dialogical research would look like and the ethical imperative of dialogical research
Why Study People's Stories? The Dialogical Ethics of Narrative Analysis
Narrative analysis is presented as continuous with personal storytelling in the work of remoralizing what Weber identified as disenchanted modernity. Critics of contemporary storytelling seem to misunderstand what kind of authenticity of self is expressed in stories. Against those whom Charles Taylor calls 'knockers' of the idea of personal authenticity, this article affirms authenticity, but in terms that are dialogical: authenticity is created …
Stories of illness as care of the self
Michel Foucault's idea of the 'care of the self' challenges whether ill people can be empowered by telling their own stories in the attempt to reclaim their own experiences from the medical appropriation of illness. This paper explores the ambiguity in what Foucault meant by care of the self and suggests that empowerment through narrative formulations of identity remains possible, though Foucault teaches us that telling our 'own stories' is never…
The Rhetoric of Self-Change
A rhetoric formulating the self as a project for change has developed in our century. Within this rhetoric certain events and experiences are understood as occasions for changing the self; illness is a prime example. In most narratives of illness the author makes some claim for self-change, though these claims vary. The paper identifies several types of claims for self-change and then considers the relation of rhetorical structures to personal ex…
The Standpoint of Storyteller
The legitimacy of an interest in illness narratives that is therapeutic, emancipatory, and pre-occupied with ethics is defended in response to Atkinson's critique of this interest as a blind alley. The value of storytelling as complementary to story analysis is argued, and the importance of recognizing one's own standpoint is emphasized. The conclusion considers how qualitative methods can inform changing relationships between illness, health, me…
Illness as moral occasion
While both medical sociology and clinical ethics have tended to ignore the moral dimensions of illness, some ethicists have called attention to how serious illness creates a moral imperative for the ill person to 'rise to the occasion'. First-person narratives of illness experience delimit the 'potential consciousness' of illness as a moral occasion. Narratives by Tim Brookes, Anatole Broyard, Kat Duff and Terry Tempest Williams present different…
Can we Research Suffering
Illness troubles us because it is an occasion of suffering, but research on illness has difficulty conceptualizing suffering-and naturally so because suffering is not a concept but a lived reality that resists articulation. Based on the work of Dorothy Smith, the author argues that the rhetoric of social science inadvertently increases suffering because it attempts to organize local experience within extralocal categories. He concludes with sugge…
Suffering
Sociology is always concerned with the causes and consequences of human suffering in one form or another, yet there is no sociology of suffering per se. This book is written with the understanding that if sociology fails to attend to what suffering does to people then it is left with a severely diminished account of human experience. Wilkinson maintains that a sociological response to suffering must confront the most unsettling questions of meani…
The Body Social
Health stories as connectors and subjectifiers
Health circulates inside bodies, as a condition of cells, tissues and organs, and outside bodies as signs. Health stories offer people bits of a subjectivity of health: an awareness of what is interior, expressed in signs that are exterior. Three genres of health stories are described: technoluxe stories, unbearable health stories and strategic health stories. These stories call out to people, bidding to be subjectifiers of health. Stories connec…
From sick role to narrative subject
Questions of illness experience and identity are discussed, based on the analysis of a story told by the breast-cancer activist Audre Lorde. Displacing Parsons' conceptualization of illness as a sick role, I understand the ill person as a narrative subject, defined by discursive possibilities. Three discourses of illness are proposed: the medical institutional discourse, the discourse of illness experience, and the pink-ribbon discourse. Each has…
Mea Culpa
After Methods, the Story
Writing is the integral part of research when a story is crafted. This story makes whatever claim the research will have on readers, and social scientists have increasingly recognized the need to take their storytelling seriously. Discussion of several contemporary ethnographies offers practical advice on writing by asking how the authors tell such good stories. Advice begins with how to catch readers' attention and moves to issues of telling the…
Illness and the Interactionist Vocation
The disenchantment of our times is described as a contest between what are called the ride and the story. The ride represents an array of desires to treat the body as a project for perpetual enhancement and medicine as a venue of commodity capitalism. The story imagines illness as a moral project. The interactionist vocation is thus placed in the context of what Weber called our fate: how do we confront the moral dilemma of our present moment
Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities
In recent years, both within and beyond academic and clinical spheres, medical and health humanities have become increasingly influential. Drawing from interdisciplinary fields in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, medical and health humanities present unique lenses for considering nuanced spaces and lived experiences of health and health care; they also help challenge traditional ways that medicine and health care are understood and …
Disrupted Lives
Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in. Chaotic World. Gay Becker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.264 pp
Reconciliatory Alchemy
Beyond Goffman
Twenty Lectures
Narrative Witness to Bodies
Blurred Inscriptions of Health and Illness
DES Daughters
Bell, S. DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women’s Health Politics . Philadelphia : Temple University Press 2009 xi + 218 pp. $US24.95 (pbk ) ISBN 978-1-59213-919-4 When Susan Bell first interviewed DES daughters in 1982, could she possibly have imagined the book she eventually wrote? It is not necessarily a recommendation for a book to be thirty years in the making, but DES Daughters is a remarkably seamless weaving of …
Only by Daylight
How Conversation Works
Note on the Tattooed Man from Burmah
Early Scientific Instruments. Exhibition Catalog of the Arthur Frank Loan Collection
Theories and Theory Groups in Contemporary American Sociology. Nicholas C. Mullins
Making scenes in public
Politics and History
Structuralism in Sociology
The Form of Sociology
The Survival of Domination
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Pooh talk
The politics of the new positivity
Formulating children's troubles for organizational intervention
Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 2
Improper closings
Life-World and Social Realities
How Conversation Works
Five Bodies
Twenty Lectures
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Symbolic Interaction or Interaction Ritual
Bringing Bodies Back in
G. H. Mead
For a Sociology of the Body
Postmodern Sociology/Postmodern Review
Interpretive Interactionism , by Norman K. Denzin Interpretive Biography , by Norman K. Denzin
Frontiers of Social Theory
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