Narrative and Experience
Telling Stories of Illness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7430440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer M Levy, Jennifer Levy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | NEXUS The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0707-3771 • E-ISSN: 0707-3771 |
| Publisher | McMaster University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15173/nexus.v18i1.194 |
| OpenAlex | W134369116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
Narratives of illness have a central role in medical anthropology and have the illuminated the personal and social experience of suffering. Problematizing the relationship between narrative and experience, narrative is viewed not simply as a reflection of experience. Illness narratives are seen as intersubjective products that create meaning and coherence in an otherwise fractured life. Moreover, narratives are not simply about what was, or what is, but about what will be. Thus, narratives create experience and are directed toward future action in the world
Embodiment and experience
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
Disrupted Lives
Life stories and shared experience
Shattered assumptions
Stories of illness and trauma survival
The Narrated Self
The Body's Insistence on Meaning
Life Stories of the Terminally Ill
The Mindful Body
Personal Stories
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |