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Engaging the reader with a variety of patient narratives and health communication scholarship, this book illustrates how narratives can create change; how differences matter; and how identity, relational, and cultural factors intersect to affect patienthood.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Narrating Patient Experience: Benefits for multiple audiences
Chapter 2: From Stories to Discoveries: Patients' Narratives as Advocacy in Biomedical Research
Chapter 3: Cultural Communication Competency as a Two-Way Street: My Journey from Medical Avoidance to Patient Self-Advocacy
Chapter 4: Who will tell our stories? Emerging health legacies following the 2014-2016 Ebola Epidemic
Chapter 5: African Americans and Hospice Care: On Social Risk, Privacy Management, and Relational Health Advocacy
Chapter 6: Can You Please Direct me to a Doctor That Has a Heart?: A Stage 4 Breast Cancer Patient Narrative
Chapter 7: Exploring the Effects of Patient-Provider Communication on the Lives of Women with Vulvodynia
Chapter 8: Queer Patienthood
Chapter 9: An Autoethnographic Account of Navigating Patienthood as a Person with Hearing Impairment
Chapter 10: From Consumer to Community-Based Researcher: Lessons from the HIV Stigma Index
Chapter 11: The Gendered Nature of Generosity in Post-Hysterectomy "Dear Honey..." Letters
Chapter 12: The Narrative Journey and Decision-Making Process of Plastic Surgery Patienthood
Chapter 13: Narrative Sense-Making in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Chapter 14: Healthy mother, healthy baby: An Autoethnography to Challenge the Dominant Cultural Narrative of the Birthing Patient
Chapter 15: Abelist Biases
About the author
Peter M. Kellett is associate professor of communication studies at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
