Illness Narratives in Practice: Potentials and Challenges of Using Narratives in Health-related Contexts

What is it like to live with an illness? How do diagnostic procedures, treatments, and other encounters with medical institutions affect a patient''s private and social life? By asking these types of questions, illness narratives have gained a reputation as a scientific domain in medicine in the last thirty years. Today, a patient''s story plays an important role in doctor-patient communication an...