Imagining New Normals: A Narrative Framework for Health Communication

ISBN-13: 9780757597978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Lynn M. Harter

Opis

How can individuals live well in the midst of inescapable trauma and illness? What symbolic and material resources foster resiliency among individuals facing vulnerable circumstances?Imagining New Normals: A Narrative Framework for Health Communication engages these questions and positions narratives as central to human survival and social change. Storytelling reflects the narrative impulse and is a powerful form of experiencing and expressing suffering and loss. Acute and chronic illnesses represent corporeal and social threats to a person's previously imagined life course. Patients, healthcare providers and activists alike rely on storytelling to make sense of expectations gone awry and imagine new normals.Imagining New Normals:

• Is not about sickness, although many people who populate its pages have experienced treatment and what remains in the aftermath.
• Uses narratives from an explicitly broad vantage point, casting a wide net that incorporates autobiographical stories, cultural scripts, institutional plots, and the process of storytelling to examine health communication.
• Frames storytelling as a relational, poetic and political process of identity construction
• Embraces the storytelling capacities of various aesthetic forms (e.g. visual imagery, choreography, music)
• Explores the intermingling of narrative and scientific logics in diagnostic work
• Highlights innovative clinical communication practices
• Tracks personal narratives in public health-related information, entertainment and activist rhetoric
• Juxtaposes the therapeutic potential and limits of storytelling in virtual and face-to-face communities
• Raises ethical considerations for narrative practice and research

Spis treści

• Introductory Remarks: A Letter to Readers by Lynn M. Harter
• PART ONE: FOUNDATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
• CHAPTER 1 - The Poetics and Politics of Storytelling in Health Contexts
• by Lynn M. Harter
• CHAPTER 2 - The Storytelling Capacities of Arts Programming in Healthcare Contexts
• by Lynn M. Harter, Margaret M. Quinlan, and Stephanie Ruhl
• PART TWO: STORYTELLING IN DIVERSE HEALTHCARE CONTEXTS
• CHAPTER 3 - Embracing Narrative Logics and Enlarging Clinical Interactions
• by Lynn M. Harter
• CHAPTER 4 - Preparing Future Physicians for the Narrative Nature of Clinical Work Through Standardized Patient Programs
• by Spencer D. Patterson and Lynn M. Harter
• CHAPTER 5 - Disrupting the Meta-Narrative of ""Assembly Line Medicine"": Creating New Normals for Underserved Populations Through Mobile Clinics
• by Karen L. Deardorff and Lynn M. Harter
• CHAPTER 6 - The Poetic Possibilities of Long-Term Care
• by Jill Yamasaki
• CHAPTER 7 - Communicating Healing in a Third Space: Real and Imagined Forms of Integrative Medicine
• by Barbara F. Sharf, Patricia Geist-Martin, and Julia Moore
• CHAPTER 8 - Organizing for Social Change: Personal Stories and Public Health Activism
• by Lynn M. Harter, Michael Broderick, Samuel Venable, and Margaret M. Quinlan
• PART THREE: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
• CHAPTER 9 - Subjugated Stories of Pain and Illness
• by Mark Leeman
• CHAPTER 10 - Poetic Interpretations of Storytelling
• by Lynn M. Harter, Brittany L. Peterson, Timothy McKenna, and Amanda Torrens
• INDEX