Anthropologists believe that patients can emotionally recover from illness-related events when they write about them in a causally and temporally coherent story, also known as an "illness narrative." By constructing this account and sharing it with others, patients gain the empathy of a "listening community" and often learn to respond differently to similar events in the future. Over seven months, I compiled an extensive literature review on general and illness narrative theory and then used this information to co-construct a video-based illness narrative with Dawn, a 19-year-old Type I diabetic.

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Creator

• Bisson, Andrea Lynn

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050510-125254

Advisor

• Higgins, Lorraine D.

Year

• 2010

Date created

• 2010-05-05

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Professional Writing

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-11-24