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Why Public Health Needs Narrative

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Textual Therapies
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An introduction to an often overlooked context for using narrative in healthcare: public health.
A creative writer and public health practitioner and researcher, Lise Saffran explains the practice and rationale for using narrative in public health as opposed to clinical or medical contexts. We explore in particular the difficulties of constructing and assessing truth versus salience or persuasiveness in public health narratives, and how working with narrative changes the nature of research practice and communication.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Textual Therapies
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Lise Saffran
Emily Troscianko
Keywords
authenticity
cliché
health humanities
narrative
public health
truth
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 12/09/2018
Duration: 00:29:21

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