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Kawasaki, Akiko. "Illness and nursing in the Brontë narratives." Thesis, University of Hull, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418752.
Full textPovozhaev, Lea M. "Addiction Rhetoric: Conceptual Metaphors in Conversational Illness Narratives." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1406720653.
Full textBuscemi, Nicole Desiree. "Diagnosing narratives: illness, the case history, and Victorian fiction." Diss., University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/282.
Full textSile, Agnese. "The space of love in photographic essays of illness narratives." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231012.
Full textKing, Katharine E. "Writing the breast cancer journey : illness narratives from an Internet forum /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ54928.pdf.
Full textMcNamara, Karen. "Blogging breast cancer language and subjectivity in women's online illness narratives /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2007. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4111.
Full textBülow, Pia. "Making sense of contested illness : talk and narratives about chronic fatigue /." Linköping : Univ. : Dept. of Communication Studies [Kommunikation, Institutionen för Tema], Univ. [distributör], 2003. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2003/arts280s.pdf.
Full textGarthwaite, Kayleigh Ann. "Incapacitated? : exploring the health and illness narratives of Incapacity Benefit recipients." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6387/.
Full textBond, Emma F. "Disrupted Narratives : Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516991.
Full textStewart, Carly Louise. "Sporting autobiographies and illness narratives : when disrupted bodies tell their stories." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439808.
Full textHalder, Anirban [Verfasser]. "Slow Engagements: Patient’s Perspective in Narratives of Chronic Illness / Anirban Halder." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1210964155/34.
Full textBedwell, Rebecca, and Rebecca Bedwell. "Diabetes Illness Narratives among Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626725.
Full textSoltermann, Tanya C. "Emergence of a Cancer Identity in Emerging Adulthood: Weblogs as Illness Narratives." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30653.
Full textCoppock, Mary Jane. "Polarizing Narratives: Harmful Representations of Mental Illness and Bipolar in Popular Media." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/953.
Full textStringer, Helen. "The impossible story: Arthur W. Frank's "Chaos Narrative" and memoirs of madness." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/135617/2/Helen_Stringer_Thesis.pdf.
Full textSchulz-Burgdorf, Ulrich. "Mwili, nafsi na roho katika ugonjwa: mfano wa simulizi za ugonjwa (illness narratives)." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-98610.
Full textHamza, Sabeeha. "The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6400.
Full textThis dissertation reports on the results on an exploratory investigation into the potential efficacy of VR as both a support mechanism to people living with HIV I AIDS, as well its capabilities as an emotive medium. Two hypothesis were presented viz. (1) VR will be a form of social support and (2) VR will have an emotional impact on participants. The research builds up on findings which demonstrate the therapeutic effectiveness of telling personal and collective narratives in an HIV I AIDS support group. This fact, together with the tested ability ofVR as a therapeutic medium, let to the development of a virtual support group with an aim to test its therapeutic efficacy. A low cost, deployable desktop PC based system using custom software was developed. The system implemented a VR walkthrough experience of a tranquil campfire in a forest.
Gray, Jeniffer. "Examining illness narratives in chronic fatigue and immune deficiency syndrome : a mindbody perspective." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10547.
Full textA semi-structured interview was used to obtain illness narrative data from 10 Chronic Fatigue and Immune Deficiency Syndrom (CFIDS) patients. A qualitative narrative analysis was completed and the findings were discussed in relation to the patients' subjective understanding of the illness process. This was related to current CFIDS research findings, and more especially to the four theoretical paradigms that underpin this research - namely, Medical Illness Model, Lifeworld Illness Model, Mindbody Medicine, and Psychodynamic Theory. Each one of these illness theories highlighted an aspect of the healing influence on CFIDS patients' illness course and meaning. The analysis confirms the importance of all these healing influences. Thus it was concluded that the medical treatment, arising from the Cartesian dualistic understanding of mind and body, proved inadequate on its own as an effective intervention to bring release from CFIDS symptoms and enable the patients to engage a new meaningful life-process. The four paradigms together represent the mindbody reality and indicate the importance of patients receiving interventions at all levels of their lived experience. This intervention approach was shown to be most effective. It is therefore suggested that the Health System work towards such collaborative, integrated health care for chronically ill sufferers.
Iannarino, Nicholas T. "Laughing at death: The forms and functions of humor in illness trauma narratives." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1287429452.
Full textBueno, Yvette. "The Co-Construction of Self-Talk and Illness Narratives: An HIV Intervention Case Study." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/200.
Full textMcKay, Elizabeth Anne. ""Rip that whole book up - I've changed" : life and work narratives of mental illness." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2002. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21202.
Full textDavis, Kayla. "On Experiencing Illness in the Western Biomedical World: A Push for more Comprehensive Healthcare in America." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/460.
Full textAdlington, Rebecca Louise. "Narratives of young people living with cystic fibrosis (CF)." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/9121.
Full textDavies, Kerry Elisabeth. "Narratives beyond the walls : patients' experiences of mental health and illness in Oxfordshire since 1948." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394666.
Full textSchreiber, Jacob S. "Discursive constructions of decline| Narratives of illness and financial stress among residents in assisted living." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10196318.
Full textTreating aging as a disease has led to what Carrol Estes termed “the aging enterprise:” the development of services to house and care for elders. Much is known about the power structures in such facilities, but the issue of socio-economic decline and its relation to elder health has not received a great deal of attention. This thesis analyzes interview and participant-observation data from a sample of residents in an assisted living facility (ALF) to ethnographically explore the way physical and socio-economic experiences of decline emerge in participant narratives. Findings indicate elders construct identities of illness that draw from institutional discourses that diminish their personhood. The narrative structure of declining health is also found to be compatible with other socio-economic descriptions of decline. The multiple discursive patterns of decline culminate in a model of ALF resident dependency. Based on this model, recommendations are made to affirm elder personhood and enact agency in ALF.
Dorgan, Kelly A., Kathryn L. Duvall, and Sadie P. Hutson. "Telling Stories about Cohabitating Morbidities: Female Cancer Survivors’ Interconnecting Illness Narratives in Southern Central Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1266.
Full textHughes, Danielle Anna. "The Other Child: Health Narratives of Adults Raised with a Chronically Ill Sibling." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1340378917.
Full textBromley, Helen. "Discourses and narratives of difference : 'race', rurality and illness : the case of the Hokianga, New Zealand." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/eaa176ee-c3f4-473a-971a-908d0c9afecb.
Full textCoats, Heather, Janice D. Crist, Ann Berger, Esther Sternberg, and Anne G. Rosenfeld. "African American Elders’ Serious Illness Experiences: Narratives of "God Did," "God Will," and "Life Is Better"." SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623518.
Full textLee, Jessica Nalani Oi Jun. "Too Much Information: Agency and Disruptions of Power in Personal Narratives of Mental Illness and Suffering." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/323465.
Full textPederson, Sarah Nicole. "The final chapter: end-of-life identity constructions in hospice narrative performances." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3511.
Full textDominicé, Dao Melissa. "Making sense of illness in the absence of diagnosis : patients' and physicians' narratives of medically unexplained symptoms." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101113.
Full textMueri, Christine Andrea. "'Defined not by time, but by mood': First-person narratives of bipolar disorder." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1307662397.
Full textPlummer, Stephanie C. "Food Contamination Narratives in United States News Media." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1237761803.
Full textO'Brien, Mary Rose. "Hopes, transitions and letting go : living with ALS/MND as documented in published and unpublished first-person illness narratives." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538620.
Full textDorgan, Kelly A., Kathryn L. Duvall, Sadie P. Hutson, and Amber E. Kinser. "Mothered, Mothering & Motherizing in Illness Narratives: What Women Cancer Survivors in Southern Central Appalachia Reveal About Mothering-Disruption." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1221.
Full textMiles, Stephanie Anne. "A dual-process approach to stigma reduction using online, user-generated narratives in social media messages." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2122.
Full textThelen, Andrea Zolnier. "Narrative efforts at social redemption by people with AIDS/HIV." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001863.
Full textHancock, Sara Catherine. "“I think I should be feeling bad about it” HIV/AIDS, narrative, and the institutional voices of medicine – towards a conceptualization of medical consciousness." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2361.
Full textde, Cavalho Raiana. "Agency, participation, and cancer stories on Instagram: A narrative analysis of the Networked Oncological Causers in Brazil." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1574249134299928.
Full textDorgan, Kelly A., Sadie P. Hutson, Kathryn L. Duvall, Amber E. Kinser, and Joanne M. Hall. "Connecting Place to Disease and Gender: Cohabitating Morbidities in Narratives of Women Cancer Survivors in Southern Central Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1223.
Full textPayne, Rosalind. "Narratives of parents living with a child affected by chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17472.
Full textCardillo, Linda Wheeler. "Constructing and making sense of difference narratives of the experience of growing up with a chronic illness or physical disability /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1101240415.
Full textAssad, Mary K. "Gender, Illness, and Narrative: A Rhetorical Study of the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women Campaign." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1401996060.
Full textGiunti, Costanza <1990>. "Etnografia in Sardegna dentro al caso “sangue infetto”. La malattia nella cura. Illness narratives: beta-talassemia major, epatite C, battaglia legale." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14608.
Full textBrisley, Adam Leon. "Accessing cancer care in the context of a changing English National Health Service." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654877.
Full textPerez, Quintero Camilo E. "In-Between the Frames: Contesting Stigmas of Violence and Illness Through Digital Storytelling (a Visual Social Semiotic Analysis of Pasolini en Medellin and the PD Narrative Project)." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1565285316168429.
Full textBelloni, Eleonora. "Narrazioni di malattia e identità. Le prospettive dei caregiver primari di persone con demenza." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423978.
Full textIn Italia la maggior parte delle persone malate di demenza è assistita all’interno delle famiglie, tuttavia viene spesso dato per scontato cosa voglia dire essere “caregiver”, quasi fosse distinguibile un’entità precisa riconoscibile esclusivamente sulla base dei compiti a questa assegnati. Nella letteratura specifica, infatti, il caregiver viene spesso rappresentato come colui che si prende cura di una persona malata o non autosufficiente, tuttavia i riflessi di questa esperienza sull'identità delle persone restano un tema ancora poco indagato. Partendo dai contributi delle illness narratives e della psicologia narrativa, abbiamo assunto la teoria del posizionamento come cornice teorica del presente lavoro. Questa prospettiva pone l’accento sulla “costruzione” dell’identità all’interno delle interazioni e intende le narrazioni come performance in cui le identità vengono negoziate. Alla luce di queste premesse, lo studio mira ad esplorare come i caregiver primari di persone con demenza posizionino se stessi e come (ri)considerino la loro identità nella relazione di cura. L’indagine si articola su tre aree distinte ma connesse: (1) Come i caregiver costruiscono la demenza (2) Come costruiscono il familiare malato (3) Come i caregiver costruiscono la propria identità nella relazione di cura. A questo scopo sono state condotte 47 interviste narrative con i caregiver primari (20 coniugi e 27 figli/e) di persone malate di demenza ad uno stadio medio-grave. Attraverso un’analisi qualitativo-tematica sono state indagate le prime due domande di ricerca, mentre la terza è stata esplorata attraverso un’analisi del posizionamento assumendo una prospettiva di genere e generazionale. Dalle analisi la persona con demenza risulta impegnata ad esprimere la propria agency attraverso un continuo bilancio tra identity disruption e identity re-construction, confrontandosi con una patologia che si configura come malattia familiare e fonte di stigma. Allo stesso tempo, i caregiver si trovano costantemente impegnati a fronteggiare le richieste e i cambiamenti imposti dalla malattia e a trovare un equilibrio tra posizionamenti diversi, spesso in contraddizione tra di loro. Essere caregiver si presenta quindi come un processo di costante negoziazione tra la persona, gli altri, i propri valori e le aspettative sociali. Sono tracciati quattro tipi di movimenti identitari (“slittamento”, “bilanciamento”, “evitamento” e “appartenenza”), mettendo in luce le differenze di genere e generazionali che maggiormente influiscono su come l’esperienza di cura viene vissuta. A chiusura del lavoro è presentato il caso-studio di una caregiver al fine di proporre un’analisi integrata della tecnica narrativa dell’autocaratterizzazione come possibile strumento rivolto ai professionisti che lavorano con i familiari. I risultati complessivi sono discussi criticamente e commentati così da mettere in luce le interazioni tra le tre aree d’indagine. Lo studio propone infine alcune riflessioni sull’applicazione dei risultati, oltre ai limiti e ai possibili sviluppi della ricerca.
Ohlsson, Robert. "Representationer av psykisk ohälsa : Egna erfarenheter och dialogiskt meningsskapande i fokusgruppsamtal." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-29952.
Full textStanley, Daina. "Autobiographical Accounts of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease: Obituaries of the Living Dead?" Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30173.
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