Biographical value: towards a conceptualisation of the commodification of illness narratives in contemporary healthcare.

Illness narratives play a central role in social studies of health and illness, serving as both a key theoretical focus and a popular research method. Despite this, relatively little work has gone into conceptualising how and why illness narratives - be they in books, websites, television or other m...

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Main Authors: Mazanderani, F, Locock, L, Powell, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013