Narrative, Health, and Healing Book

	Foreword
Pt. I	Overview of narrative and health communication theorizing
	Introduction
1	Vital problematics of narrative theorizing about health and healing	7
2	Narrating problems and problematizing narratives : linking problematic integration and narrative theory in telling stories about our health	31
Pt. II	Personal narratives and public dialogues
	Introduction
3	Becoming the story : narratives as collaborative, social enactments of individual, relational, and public identities	61
4	Time, technology, and meritocracy : the disciplining of women's bodies in narrative constructions of age-related infertility	83
5	Desperately seeking legitimacy : narratives of a biomedically invisible disease	107
6	Death as the representative anecdote in the construction of the collegiate "binge-drinking" problem	131
7	State-inducted illness and forbidden stories : the role of storytelling in healing individual and social traumas in Romania	149
8	Cross-border mass-mediated health narratives : narrative transparency, "safe sex," and Indian viewers	169
Pt. III	Narrating and organizing health care events and resources
	Introduction
9	Our family's physician	197
10	Narrative knowledge development among caregivers : stories from the nurses' station	217
11	R[subscript x] story prescriptions : healing effects of storytelling and storylistening in the practice of medicine	237
12	Narrative medicine and education in palliative care	259
13	Contesting narratives of workplace maternity	277
14	Wholeness in a breaking world : narratives as sustenance for peace	295
Pt. IV	Narrative sense-making about self and other
	Introduction
15	How I fired my surgeon and embraced an alternate narrative	325
16	"My mom had a stroke" : understanding how patients raise and providers respond to psychosocial concerns	343
17	Constructing life and death through final conversation narratives	365
18	An examination of the role of narratives and storytelling in bereavement	391
19	Agency through narrative : patients managing cancer care in a challenging environment	413
	Afterword : continuing the conversation : reflections on our emergent scholarly narratives	433