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While Icarus Falls: Conditions for Pandemic Ethics by Frank, Arthur W.

“…This symposium contribution presents three vignettes of resistance to COVID-19 public health measures in Alberta, Canada, where I live. These show resolutely…”
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Finding Ways to Hope, Seeing Beauty by Frank, Arthur W., PhD

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An illness of one's own: Memoir as art form and research as witness by Frank, Arthur W.

“…The author reviews his own experiences of writing an illness memoir, asking what makes such storytelling possible. How telling stories about suffering can…”
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Philoctetes and the Good Companion Story by Frank, Arthur W

“…The idea of a companion story is developed through an analysis of Sophocles’ play Philoctetes , about living in chronic pain. That story is anchored by an…”
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Confronting the Medical Leviathan: Reading a Report from the Front Lines by Frank, Arthur W

“…This essay discusses how two physicians in Britain's National Health Service describe and analyze the conditions of their work: how algorithms and protocols…”
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Three Types of Stories About Encountering Bioethics by Frank, Arthur W

“…This commentary discusses 12 stories about receiving ethics consultation in hospitals. Five stories are by physicians, three by nurses, and four by family…”
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Eating in Theory by Annemarie Mol, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021 by Frank, Arthur W.

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Not Whether but How: Considerations on the Ethics of Telling Patients’ Stories by FRANK, ARTHUR W.

“…The ethics of telling stories about other people become questionable as soon as humans learn to talk. But the stakes get higher when health care professionals…”
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Do I Look at You with Love?: Reimagining the Story of Dementia by Mark Freeman, Leiden and Boston: Brill Sense, 2021 by Frank, Arthur W.

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From sick role to practices of health and illness by Frank, Arthur W

“…Context  Health care research generally, and medical education research specifically, make increasingly sophisticated use of social science methods, but these…”
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Truth Telling, Companionship, and Witness: An Agenda for Narrative Ethics by Frank, Arthur W.

“…Narrative ethics holds that if you ask someone what goodness is, as a basis of action, most people will first appeal to various ions, each of which can be…”
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From sick role to narrative subject: An analytic memoir by Frank, Arthur W

“…Questions of illness experience and identity are discussed, based on the analysis of a story told by the breast-cancer activist Audre Lorde. Displacing…”
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Becoming a cancer survivor: An experiment in dialogical health research by Frank, Arthur W, Solbraekke, Kari Nyheim

“…The article makes cancer survivorship the topic of an experiment in a form of writing we call dialogical response. First, in the style of autoethnography, each…”
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Narrative Ethics as Dialogical Story-Telling by Frank, Arthur W.

“…The narrative ethicist imagines life as multiple points of view, each reflecting a distinct imagination and each more or less capable of comprehending other…”
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A Medical Pedagogy of Mutual Suffering by Frank, Arthur W.

“…Who's afflicted? Early in Nicole Piemonte's book Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice, she quotes an email from a physician…”
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The Voices that Accompany Me by Frank, Arthur W.

“…This essay begins with a metaphor describing who enters the field of humanities in medicine and healthcare and the types of work they do. The role of witness…”
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What Is Narrative Therapy and How Can It Help Health Humanities? by Frank, Arthur W.

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The picture of health by Frank, Arthur W.

“…That a major university press would publish a series of graphic novels may come as a surprise to those who think of these works as comic books on steroids,…”
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Suffering, Medicine, and What Is Pointless by Frank, Arthur W

“…Beginning with Eric Cassell's much-cited definition of suffering, this essay engages with Scott Samuelson's Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering…”
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What Is Dialogical Research, and Why Should We Do It? by Frank, Arthur W.

“…Social scientists have explored the writing of Russian literary philosopher Bakhtin from a variety of perspectives, but little attempt has been made to apply…”
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