Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing

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Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing is written by Cheryl Mattingly and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520218248 (ISBN 10) and 9780520218246 (ISBN 13).

"A valuable collection. . . . The essays in the volume are all fresh, the result of recent work, and the opening chapter by Garro and Mattingly places the current trend in narrative analysis in historical context, explaining its diverse origins (and constructs) in a range of disciplines."--Shirley Lindenbaum, author of Kuru Sorcery "A good place to consult the narrative turn in medical anthropology. Thick with the richness and diversity and stubborn resistance to interpretations of human stories of illness. An anthropological antidote for too narrow a framing of the complex tangle of ways-of-being and ways-of-telling that make medicine a space of indelibly human experiences." --Arthur Kleinman, author of The Illness Narratives