Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing or No Duty to Retreat

Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing

Author: Cheryl Mattingly

Inspired by the possibilities of narrative, the essays in this direction-setting volume present stories drawn from a range of ethnographic contexts. Stories of illness and healing are often arresting in their power, and they can illuminate aspects of practices and experiences surrounding illness that might otherwise be neglected. Recognizing the value of increased theoretical consciousness among those eliciting and analyzing narratives, these contributors explore narrative from a variety of perspectives.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

1. Narrative as Construct and as Construction: An Introduction
Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly

2. "Fiction" and "Historicity" in Doctors' Stories: Social and Narrative Dimensions of Learning Medicine
Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

3. Cultural Knowledge as Resource in Illness Narratives: Remembering through Accounts of Illness
Linda C. Garro

4. Strategic Suffering: Illness Narratives as Social Empowerment among Mexican Cancer Patients
Linda M. Hunt

5. Physician Autobiography: Narrative and the Social History of Medicine
Donald Pollock

6. "Even If We Don't Have Children [We] Can Live": Stigma and Infertility in South India
Catherine Kohler Riessman

7. Broken Narratives: Clinical Encounters and the Poetics of Illness Experience
Laurence J. Kirmayer

8. Emergent Narratives
Cheryl Mattingly

9. With Life in One's Lap: The Story of an Eye/I (or Two)
Unni Wikan

10. Psychotherapy in Clients' Trajectories across Contexts
Ole Dreier

11. Narrative Turns
Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly

Contributors
Index

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No Duty to Retreat

Author: E Antonio Hernandez

No Duty to Retreat is a fascinating tour through the neurological conditions Tourette Syndrome and Asperger's Syndrome. Tourette Syndrome, characterized by tics, and Asperger Syndrome, a mild form of autism, are vividly described in this superior learning odyssey by Bishop Hernбndez. It will also contain the fullest, most accurate and up-to-date information. This book is also an excellent resource on day-to-day living for those families affected by these conditions. Chapters on friends, social difficulties, medical community advice, expert tips on school difficulties, and much more are all included. The works of other experts are comprehensively quoted, and the manuscript had the advantage of being reviewed by several of the world's experts, including Asperger expert Dr. Tony Attwood and Tourette expert Dr. David Comings. Enjoy and benefit from this thrilling, absorbing history of neurological illness and wellness; much of the information you will read here will be for the first time. And, directly from the author, "Bless you, and thank you for buying my book!"