There is a new attention across disciplines to narrative knowing—the impulse to story life
events into order and meaning. In this paper, narrative is presented as a framework for …

This completely revised and greatly expanded edition of Doing Qualitative Research spans
the spectrum of primary care research, illustrating when methods are appropriate and how to …

A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how
does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the …

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to
organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we …

Starry night: using story to inform aesthetic knowing in women's health nursing Aim of the
Paper. This paper describes the use of story as a vehicle to inform aesthetic knowing in …

Religious or Spiritual Problem is a new diagnostic category (Code V62. 89) in the 1994
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Although the acceptance of this new …

First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various
forms that constitute" life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only …

Rose, a 20-year-old college sophomore, was the designated driver for a group of friends
coming home from a party one evening in the suburbs of Charleston, South Carolina. The …

This book sets out to introduce a range of themes in the field of health communication that
are linked by a common approach, which gives centrality to the notion of discourse …

This article explores the relationship of spirituality to health care and bioethics in terms of the
need and efforts of people to make sense of their lives in the face of illness, injury, or …