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Patients' perspectives on their experiences of illness and treatment are increasingly valued by the medical profession as a source of information to enhance professional development peer support and the quality of care provided. This book explores the development of an in-depth relational and reflexive approach to narrative inquiry drawing on counselling and arts-based approaches to researching accounts of illness. The significance of patient stories is explored through narrative research conversations with people whose personal accounts of a range of conditions provide powerful insights into the impact of illness on identity life stories and the experience of patienthood. It offers suggestions for using narrative methods in medical education and practice to help professionals to both attend to patients' narratives and reflect on their own stories. Developing a Narrative Approach to Healthcare Research will be of interest to educators practitioners students and researchers in healthcare and the social sciences.

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Member of the Centre for Narrative and Transformative Learning, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol; British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy; Bristol Collaborative Writing Group.

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