Book: The lives of stories, or the body of words
Narrative, Picturing and the Social Response to Serious Disease details for us what patients can and must convey to themselves and to us about their illness experiences through writing or art; poet Rachel Hadas's Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry demonstrates how powe...
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| Published in: | The Lancet 2011, Vol.377 (9784), p.2170 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | eng |
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Narrative, Picturing and the Social Response to Serious Disease details for us what patients can and must convey to themselves and to us about their illness experiences through writing or art; poet Rachel Hadas's Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry demonstrates how powerfully words and craft can convey the loss and rage and grief of sickness's losses. Known by physicians and medical educators for his pioneering works on medical narrative, The Wounded Storyteller and A Renewal of Generosity, sociologist and critical theorist Frank has made a life-work of reading and writing illness narratives, helping doctors and patients to learn that which can only be learned from first-person accounts of illness. |
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| ISSN: | 0140-6736 1474-547X |