Narration and narratization of a cancer story: Composing and performing<i>a clean breast of it</i>

Park‐Fuller, Linda M.

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“…Kleinman sug-gests that through "narration of the illness a clinician can recognize some of the special concerns-cognitive, affective, moral-that patients bring to their encounters with the events and the career of chronic illness" (Kleinman, 1988, p. 233). Often the tellers of clinical narratives construct stories about physical symptoms, diagnosis, and progression through treatment of the diagnosis in a manner that allows the experience to be understood by the teller and the listener (Park-Fuller, 1995). The stories help repair the physical and mental damage that illness has done to the body.…”

Section: Illness Narrative Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrative Research: A Viable Methodology for Clinical Nursing

Overcash

2004

Nursing Forum

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Section: Illness Narrative Researchmentioning

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Narrative Research: A Viable Methodology for Clinical Nursing

Overcash

2004

Nursing Forum

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“…Indeed, research indicates that telling one’s story can be therapeutic (Langellier & Peterson, 2004). In the act of telling, the teller finds agency through asserting his or her own narrative identity, refusing the character portrayal proffered in the stories of others, and speaking his or her truth about the events in question, thereby providing the community an alternative perspective to the officially sanctioned story of the powerful players involved (Park-Fuller, 1995, 2000). Telling one’s story also permits the teller to locate a community and, thus, a broader support network of others who have experienced or might experience similar circumstances (Langellier, 1993).…”

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Navigating the “Abyss”

Gravley

Richardson

Allison

2015

Management Communication Quarterly

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Whistle-blowers frequently face severe retaliation for their actions. This retaliation has power to destroy, marginalize, and even metaphorically murder those who speak out. Perhaps the greatest loss described by many whistleblowers, however, is loss of personal identity, an experience we term the abyss. This study's purpose was to explore organizational whistle-blowing experiences, specifically the abyss, and identity transformation of whistleblowers through the construct of narrative identity theory. We interviewed 11 individuals who had blown the whistle against perceived corruption in various Texas school systems, and had experienced retaliation. Narrative analysis revealed four identities personified by whistle-blowers: crusader, citizen, mom, and popularity seeker. These various identities offered explanations for whistleblowers' choices to disclose, their perceptions of retaliation, and their abilities to either maintain their identities or reconstitute new identities. We conclude by offering implications for understanding how and why some whistle-blowers can seamlessly manage retaliation, whereas others are transformed by it.

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“…Hence, the individual fighting cancer is reduced to a victim in the literature. Park-Fuller (1995) was correct when she asserted that "to be a victim is to suffer, to die. There's nothing active about it.…”

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“…In discussions with children and teenagers, I came to see that their responses to my questions about death, dying, and fear clustered around three primary themes: (1) the presence of fear at diagnosis, (2) nondebilitating fear, and (3) lack of fear. It is my hope that the campers' responses to these issues may help directors make an informed decision about Memory Circles and help to deconstruct the victor-victim binary so prevalent in cancer research (Park-Fuller 1995).…”

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Memory Circles

Rich

2002

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Each summer, Camp Anuenue is in session. Billed as an opportunity for young people with cancer to have a “normal” camping experience, this camp provides a sense of community and a needed break from hospital stays. Despite increasing survival rates for young people with cancer, a number of children and teenagers die each year. However, because Camp Anuenue is designed as a place to have fun, discussions of death and dying are often marginalized. Following a social drama and outpouring of communal grief in 1992, camp administrators implemented a grieving ritual. During the next four years, there was a struggle regarding where and how grief should be enacted. As the objective of the ritual gradually shifted from communal grieving to sharing favorite moments from camp, young people found more informal and individual ways of processing grief.

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Narration and narratization of a cancer story: Composing and performinga clean breast of it

Cited by 26 publications

References 3 publications

Narrative Research: A Viable Methodology for Clinical Nursing

Narrative Research: A Viable Methodology for Clinical Nursing

Navigating the “Abyss”

Memory Circles

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