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Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Arthur W. Frank
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-18 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Updated second edition: “A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions.” —Sociology of Heath and Illn
The Wounded Storyteller
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Arthur W. Frank
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine; they are wounded storytellers, Frank argues. People tell stories to make sense of their suf
Letting Stories Breathe
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Arthur W. Frank
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us—they show us what counts as right or wrong and
At the Will of the Body
Language: en
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Authors: Arthur W. Frank
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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"In this deeply affecting memoir, Arthur Frank explores the events of illness from within: the transformation from person to patient, the pain, and the ceremony
Narrative Medicine
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