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Illness Narrative Analysis

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This essay will look at the importance of illness narratives in healthcare when treating patients living with chronic illnesses. Narrative will be defined and discussed, along with chronic illness and biographical disruption. The impact of illness narratives on chronic illness and the consequent diagnosis and treatment of chronic illness in the healthcare context will also be discussed.

"One of our most powerful forms for expressing suffering and experiences related to suffering is the narrative." (Hydén1997). Narrative is defined as "an entity that is distinguishable from the surrounding discourse and has a beginning [the time before the onset of the illness], middle [the onset of the illness] and an end [the resolution of the illness]." (Hydén, 1997: 51). …show more content…

More specifically, the illness narrative has five main uses: the first being the ability to “transform illness events and construct a world of illness” (Hydén, 1997: 55); secondly, the ability to reconstruct a person’s life history; thirdly, to understand and explain the illness; fourthly, to project one’s identity; and lastly, to take illness from an individual context and transform it into a collective

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