Cultural Knowledge as Resource in Illness Narratives
Cultural Knowledge as Resource in Illness Narratives
Remembering through Accounts of Illness
This chapter explains how the interplay of personal experience and cultural knowledge shapes illness narratives. It examines how cultural knowledge can become a resource in guiding remembering about the past and shows how individual accounts draw strength and supposed truth as they are found within accounts of a collective past. This chapter is grounded in cognitive theories of both memory and narrative.
Keywords: personal experience, cultural knowledge, illness narratives, collective past, cognitive theories, memory
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