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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Illness (narratives)"”.
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Social Media in Healthcare: Responsible Use of Illness Narratives
… media to tell stories of their experiences of illness. These stories represent a new sort of illness narrative, which fosters connections between patients, giving rise to online communities that provide support, inform, and empower patients. In this way, the use of social media is able to …
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Student Healthcare Providers' Illness Narratives: Impact on Family-Focused Care
… providers connected their own experiences with illness to their clinical work, particularly in including patients’ family members in care. The majority of participants, and especially those in medicine and nursing disciplines, described a tension between their desire to connect with patients and …
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Anxious lives: Tracing the life course of a medical diagnosis through illness narratives
… diagnosis, from the perspective and through the narratives of people who have been diagnosed. In this study, I address two core research questions. First, how does social materiality (e.g., bodies and objects) contribute to, shape, and lend empirical understanding to the experience of an anxiety …
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Examining illness narratives in chronic fatigue and immune deficiency syndrome : a mindbody perspective
A semi-structured interview was used to obtain illness narrative data from 10 Chronic Fatigue and Immune Deficiency Syndrom (CFIDS) patients. A qualitative narrative analysis was completed and the findings were discussed in relation to the patients' subjective understanding of the illness process. …
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The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR
… effectiveness of telling personal and collective narratives in an HIV I AIDS support group. This fact, together with the tested ability ofVR as a therapeutic medium, let to the development of a virtual support group with an aim to test its therapeutic efficacy. A low cost, deployable desktop PC …
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"Doctor-Prescribed and Mother-Encouraged": Interpersonal Interactions and Body Image Concerns in Higher-Weight Clients with Eating Disorders
… the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness. Among restrictive EDs, individuals can present across the weight spectrum, however those with low body weight have traditionally been the focus of ED research. Though a major issue in ED treatment, there has only been small amount of …
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Health and Well-being: Definitions, Identity and Experience
… online interviews, I draw on the experience and narratives of seventeen individuals with IBD, including myself. The three main themes addressed are ‘Living with IBD’, ‘Becoming a Patient’, and ‘Coping and Control’. I explore how IBD influences individuals’ experience of personal relationships, …
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Dead in the Crosswalk
… to examine the intersections of trauma, mental illness, and monstrosity. Told through the lens of fictional monsters, the collection examines the ways in which mental illness and trauma recovery exist in circular patterns while the speaker struggles to regain control of the illness. In this way, …
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Currere, Illness, and Motherhood: A Dwelling Place for Examining the Self
… my experience as a mother dwelling with illness which began because of my son's illness. The purpose of this dissertation is two-fold: to examine my Self as a mother dwelling with illness so that I may begin to work through repressed emotions and to further complicate the conversation …
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Controlling and constraining the participation of the hepatitis C-affected community in Australia: A critical discourse analysis of the first national hepatitis C strategy and selected news media texts
… context within which persons construct their illness narratives. The privileged perspectives and framing of public health policy and news media discourses; the discursive practices associated with the institutions of public health and the media around hepatitis C and hepatitis C-positive …
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The "Self" in Crisis: A Study of Audre Lorde's <i>The Cancer Journals</i>
… women’s autobiographies, women’s writings, and illness narratives, I explore Lorde’s ways of writing about her body and emotions to regain her sense of self in confrontation with the crisis. I compare Lorde’s feminist breast cancer narrative with the standards promoted by the Pink Ribbon …
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Reconstructing experience of childhood cancer: a narrative inquiry
… experience long-term effects from their illness long after their treatments are over. In order to more fully understand the impact these effects have on a young person’s life, there is a need for more patient illness narratives. Using Connelly and Clandinin’s Narrative Inquiry …
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Perceiving Hysteria: Representations of the Liminal Position of Fibromyalgia in Unconventional Women’s Narratives
… of hysteria in women’s chronic, misunderstood illnesses. I suggest that there remains a problematic and inaccurate representation of FMS. I focus predominantly on Susan Greenhalgh’s autoethnography, Under the Medical Gaze (2001), Kristin K. Barker’s sociological study, The Fibromyalgia Story …
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An "inside story" : the illness experience of women with breast cancer
This study explores the illness experiences of five women with breast cancer. The literature on psychosocial aspects of breast cancer among women is reviewed and limitations noted. A medical anthropological approach to the study of illness and health care is outlined. The importance of …
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Photovoice With Persons Affected by Tuberculosis Intervening In the Bio-Political Spheres of Communicability: A Study of the Circulation of Power
… participatory research method) and 2) how their illness narratives and images become commodified, circulated and/or reconfigured in the political economy of health and human rights. Following a period of TBPV assessment, training and implementation (2005-2008) in four sites around the globe, I …
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Me and My Monsters: A multispecies study on schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the purpose of this dissertation is to bring illness narratives to expand our understanding of what it is like to live with these parasites. Lastly, it analyses the social, economic and political structures that made and sustains schistosomiasis as the second most important neglected tropical …
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The patient's experience of painful diabetic neuropathy : an empirical study
… with suspected PDNwere interviewed and their illness narratives collected. In addition the samplecompleted the Neuropathic Pain Scale. This was undertaken pre-consultationand two to four weeks post-consultation.This study shows that PDN creates uncertainty, disturbs and disrupts a …
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Alzheimer's Disease Narratives and the Myth of Human Being
… for the disease and is reproduced in its illness narratives. The disappearance of self is a mythic element in AD narratives; it necessarily assumes the existence of a singular and coherent entity which, from the outside, can be counted as both belonging to and representing an individual …
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The Diagnosis Narratives & The Healing Ritual
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>THE DIAGNOSIS NARRATIVES & THE HEALING RITUAL</p> <p>by JAMES PETER MEZA</p> <p>December 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Andrea Sankar</p> <p>Major: Anthropology (medical)</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> The goal of this dissertation was to describe healing practices in the …
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(Re)Constructions of identity following traumatic brain injury: A discourse analysis
… social constructions of health, disability and illness, which have particular relevance for rehabilitation. The study also focused on the role of subjective experience of the individual and subject positionings within discourses. The analysis distinguished 33 discourses, which were …
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