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Illness narratives: time, hope and HIV

Life-threatening diseases such as HIV/AIDS also threaten people's sense of identity and taken for granted assumptions about the temporal shape of their lives. In response, people often experience shifts in values, spirituality and life...

Illness narratives: fact or fiction?

There is now a renewed interest in narrative analysis in the humanities, social sciences and medicine. Disease narratives are of particular interest in health-related settings. This article discusses the background to this interest....

Illness narratives: reliability, authenticity and the empathic witness

Text analysis theories are applied to understanding medical histories, clinicians and scholars have the opportunity to develop a more nuanced and multi-faceted appreciation of these accounts. A patient's story is rarely 'just a story', but is rather a conscious and unconscious...

Narrative Medicine in Surgical Education

This article proposes the use of written narrative reflection to capture and measure the generic competencies of systems-based practice, practice-based learning, communication skills and professionalism. As part of a pilot study, students...

Narrative medicine in a hectic schedule

The shift to patient-centred medical practice is important to ensure appropriate and sustainable healthcare. Narrative medicine suggests that patients should be meaningfully involved in diagnosis and treatment. Thus, to understand the importance of ...