Subverting Autobiography: Illness, Narrative, and Negotiating Dis-ease in Margaret Ogola's Place of Destiny

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Rono
Keyword(s):  
Illness Narrative

scholarly journals Reimagining Cancer through Painting: An Arts-based Authoethnography

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Christine Dunagin-Miller ◽  
Jodi Jan Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Illness Narrative ◽  
Cancer Death ◽  
Transformational Narrative

We interweave arts-based inquiry, painting, and autoethnography, to critically examine one researcher's fearful narratives around cancer, death, dying, and family myths. These methods give us the distance to deconstruct Christine's past schema in order to take away its powerful influence on her life. This destabilized illness narrative leads to a transformational narrative of peace. Arts-based inquiry invites the viewer/reader to engage in similar acts of deconstruction and transformation.

scholarly journals Fortellingens betydning for å fremme livsmotet i møte med alvorlig sykdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Kjersti Sunde Mæhre
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
Illness Narrative ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Patient Interviews ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Face

The importance of the story to promote hope and life courage in the face of serious illnessIn connection with my PhD (Mæhre, 2017), I conducted qualitative interviews with five critically ill patients in an enhanced ward of a nursing home, based on the Coordination Reform. The purpose of the interviews was to increase understanding of patient experiences of the ward, and their perceived challenges and needs for assistance. The research method was a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. The essay is based on one of the patient interviews, which has been rewritten as a narrative. This narrative emphasizes how the patient has fought against her illness, and her need to be seen as herself as a person and not understood in terms of a diagnosis. The illness narrative becomes part of her life story. The article highlights opportunities for narratives in the face of serious illness. The narrative reveals how a changed life situation, despite severe illness, can add courage and joy to life, but also how it can lead to hopelessness, doubt, and uncertainty.

Dynamic Embodiment and the Graphic Illness Narrative Genre

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-80
Author(s):  
Elisabeth El Refaie
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Illness Narratives ◽  
The Body ◽  
Illness Narrative ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Words And Images

This chapter argues that some genres are more centrally concerned with the body than others, and that each genre exploits the affordances of its modes and media in unique ways. Thus, graphic illness narratives are characterized not only by their focus on the physical, social, and emotional impacts of disease, but also by their innovative use of the tools and materials of the comics medium, including inherent tensions between words and images, and between sequence and layout. These features impose particular constraints and offer unique opportunities to artists, influencing their choice of metaphors and the shape these metaphors take. For example, in many such works the expected direction of metaphorical transfer from sensorimotor experience to more abstract concepts is reversed, as the diseased body and the nature of visual perception are foregrounded in the artist’s consciousness.

Illness Narratives

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Pragya Pandey Joshi ◽  
Ankur Joshi ◽  
Saket Kale ◽  
Jeewan Singh Meena ◽  
Nivedita Kale
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Illness Narratives ◽  
Creative Drama ◽  
Illness Narrative ◽  
Care Givers

An illness narrative is constructed when a person engages with both internal dialogues with himself and in interactions with the others during their journey; these can be transformed into dramatic script for social and self –beneficence. This paper explores whether process-centered creative drama could be the optimum modality for this dramatization. It also suggests that this process can be captured to assist the ill person, their care-givers, and others in understanding the dynamic process of illness.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Charon ◽  
Sayantani DasGupta ◽  
Nellie Hermann ◽  
Craig Irvine ◽  
Eric R. Marcus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Narrative Medicine ◽  
Illness Narrative

The care of the sick centers on the giving and receiving of accounts of illness. Narrative medicine arose at the turn of this century to equip healthcare professionals with the capacity to skillfully receive these accounts—to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved to action by the stories patients tell. The Introduction summarizes the field’s emergence from narrative theory and primary healthcare in an effort to heighten the attention of clinicians for their patients, strengthen their perception of a patient’s situation, and deepen the affiliation between them. The field’s scholarly, educational, and clinical missions are summarized, and a précis of each of the book’s chapters is offered.

scholarly journals Body Reprogramming: Reframing the Fibromyalgia narrative and providing an integrative therapeutic model

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205510292097149
Author(s):  
Anthony Fitzdonald Davies ◽  
Patrick Hill ◽  
Daniel Fay ◽  
Annily Dee ◽  
Cosima Locher
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Illness Narrative ◽  
System A ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Therapeutic Model

We propose a theory known as the Hyland model to help conceptualise Fibromyalgia within a complex adaptive control system. A fundamental assumption is that symptom generating mechanisms are causally connected, forming a network that has emergent properties. An illness narrative has been developed which has a ‘goodness of fit’ with the lived experience of those with Fibromyalgia. The theory guides management within the clinical setting and incorporates current evidence-based therapeutic strategies, within a multi-modal intervention described as ‘Body Reprogramming’. This intervention focuses on non-pharmacological and lifestyle-based considerations. The theoretical framework also helps explain why modest therapeutic effects are gained from current pharmacological options.

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