For the past several years, diverse and often confused concepts of stigma have been
invoked in discussions on AIDS. Many have argued compellingly that AIDS-related stigma …

Storytelling is an essential tool for reporting and illuminating the cultural contexts of health:
the practices and behaviour that groups of people share and that are defined by customs …

Narrative medicine is a conceptual, pedagogic, and clinical discipline designed to fortify
clinicians' capacities to honor patients' accounts of their experiences and to become …

" Cathy Riessman is the leading figure in narrative research and her new book is a delight.
Covering basic issues of transcription and research credibility as well as visual data and …

This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a
response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the …

The article gives a review of the last ten years' of research on illness narratives, and
organises this research around certain central themes. Four aspects of illness narratives are …

* What is narrative psychology?* How is the experience of'self'linked to language, narratives
and other people?* What is the role of time, morality, power and control in the construction of …

" They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the
melon and corn harvesting fields in California's Central Valley to understand why …

This paper aims to provide an overview of a narrative psychological approach towards the
study of self and identity. The narrative psychological approach can be classified as broadly …

This article considers the way in which specific narrative forms can be utilized to explore the
reflexive relationships between the body and self over time in ways that fuse the personal …