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Patient Recovery and Empathy Through Video Illness Narrative
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open in viewerAnthropologists 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.
- This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.
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- E-project-050510-125254
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- 2010
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- 2010-05-05
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- Major
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- 2020-11-24
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