Narrative Research in Health and Illness

Based on the very successful Narrative Based Medicine conference in September 2001. The editors have selected topics around the best sessions and will invite new chapters, not just the papers from the conference. The book is designed to explore the theoretical issues of narrative applied to health care, and how they impact on the practice of medicine and applied social sciences. The book will show how the new approach is more indepth than traditional history taking, placing the individual’s story in wider social and ethical contexts. This will be an internationally contributed book and will place narrative medicine on a clearer, more intellectually sound footing.