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There could be no stronger sign of the coming of age of the critical medical humanities than Stella Bolaki's Illness As Many Narratives. A piece of artistry as deft, intricate, and steadfastly complex as the astonishingly diverse range of artworks presented within it, Illness as Many Narratives is rich scholarship in keeping with the new wave of creative explorations in care, in pedagogy, and in health and illness, a book at last adequate to their demands.--Dr Claire Hooker, University of Sydney and Dr Scott Fitzpatrick, University of Newcastle, Australia Centre for Medical Humantites In this book's examples, we can see what we already know but often ignore: that no patient's illness experience happens in a vacuum, or, perhaps even more importantly, within a medical bubble. The artistic forms are of great importance because they are related to questions of ethics and politics that explore the many metastasised conflicts around illness. Stella Bolaki presents the patient (perhaps for some uncomfortably so) as a complex, lively, and creative being. She convincingly works out what her emergent narratives can do better than other word-based narratives: they solicit dialogues and shape perceptions in a much more public and political way. --Birgit Bunzel Linder BMJ, Medical Humanities Illness as Many Narratives is a thorough and thought-provoking analysis of the multiple ways people have tried to shape their own and others' stories, and so find meaning in the overwhelming turmoil of illness. From the medical perspective, this book acts as a springboard for a deeper understanding of the patient experience of illness, and allows reflection on the way we as clinicians encounter and interpret the illness narratives of our own patients - in both personal and medical education contexts.--Dr Sophie Fitzsimmons Centre for Medical Humanities

Illness as Many Narratives is a thorough and thought-provoking analysis of the multiple ways people have tried to shape their own and others' stories, and so find meaning in the overwhelming turmoil of illness. From the medical perspective, this book acts as a springboard for a deeper understanding of the patient experience of illness, and allows reflection on the way we as clinicians encounter and interpret the illness narratives of our own patients - in both personal and medical education contexts. -- Dr Sophie Fitzsimmons, Centre for Medical HumanitiesThere could be no stronger sign of the coming of age of the critical medical humanities than Stella Bolaki's Illness As Many Narratives. A piece of artistry as deft, intricate, and steadfastly complex as the astonishingly diverse range of artworks presented within it, Illness as Many Narratives is rich scholarship in keeping with the new wave of creative explorations in care, in pedagogy, and in health and illness, a book at last adequate to their demands. -- Dr Claire Hooker, University of Sydney and Dr Scott Fitzpatrick, University of Newcastle, Australia

Illness as Many Narratives is a thorough and thought-provoking analysis of the multiple ways people have tried to shape their own and others' stories, and so find meaning in the overwhelming turmoil of illness. From the medical perspective, this book acts as a springboard for a deeper understanding of the patient experience of illness, and allows reflection on the way we as clinicians encounter and interpret the illness narratives of our own patients - in both personal and medical education contexts. -- Dr Sophie Fitzsimmons, Centre for Medical HumanitiesThere could be no stronger sign of the coming of age of the critical medical humanities than Stella Bolaki's Illness As Many Narratives. A piece of artistry as deft, intricate, and steadfastly complex as the astonishingly diverse range of artworks presented within it, Illness as Many Narratives is rich scholarship in keeping with the new wave of creative explorations in care, in pedagogy, and in health and illness, a book at last adequate to their demands. -- Dr Claire Hooker, University of Sydney and Dr Scott Fitzpatrick, University of Newcastle, AustraliaIn this book's examples, we can see what we already know but often ignore: that no patient's illness experience happens in a vacuum, or, perhaps even more importantly, within a medical bubble. The artistic forms are of great importance because they are related to questions of ethics and politics that explore the many -metastasised- conflicts around illness. Stella Bolaki presents the patient (perhaps for some uncomfortably so) as a complex, lively, and creative being. She convincingly works out what her -emergent narratives- can do better than other word-based narratives: they solicit dialogues and shape perceptions in a much more public and political way. -- Birgit Bunzel Linder, BMJ, Medical Humanities

Illness as Many Narratives is a thorough and thought-provoking analysis of the multiple ways people have tried to shape their own and others' stories, and so find meaning in the overwhelming turmoil of illness. From the medical perspective, this book acts as a springboard for a deeper understanding of the patient experience of illness, and allows reflection on the way we as clinicians encounter and interpret the illness narratives of our own patients - in both personal and medical education contexts. -- Dr Sophie Fitzsimmons, Centre for Medical Humanities There could be no stronger sign of the coming of age of the critical medical humanities than Stella Bolaki's Illness As Many Narratives. A piece of artistry as deft, intricate, and steadfastly complex as the astonishingly diverse range of artworks presented within it, Illness as Many Narratives is rich scholarship in keeping with the new wave of creative explorations in care, in pedagogy, and in health and illness, a book at last adequate to their demands. -- Dr Claire Hooker, University of Sydney and Dr Scott Fitzpatrick, University of Newcastle, Australia In this book's examples, we can see what we already know but often ignore: that no patient's illness experience happens in a vacuum, or, perhaps even more importantly, within a medical bubble. The artistic forms are of great importance because they are related to questions of ethics and politics that explore the many metastasised conflicts around illness. Stella Bolaki presents the patient (perhaps for some uncomfortably so) as a complex, lively, and creative being. She convincingly works out what her emergent narratives can do better than other word-based narratives: they solicit dialogues and shape perceptions in a much more public and political way. -- Birgit Bunzel Linder, BMJ, Medical Humanities

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Dr Stella Bolaki is Senior Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English at the University of Kent.

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