Black Women in Biographical Narratives

Impact of coercive treatments on biographical narratives

Background Involuntary treatment is an integral and controversial part of psychiatric practice worldwide. Many concerns have been raised regarding the personal and legal impact of involuntary interventions in the course of psychiatric treatment [1]. Objective: To explore what it means for people to have experienced involuntary treatment with regard to their biography – their life story as well ...

Interpersonal Relationships and Social Support in Transitioning Narratives of Black Transgender Women in Detroit

Biographical value: towards a conceptualisation of the commodification of illness narratives in contemporary healthcare.

Illness narratives play a central role in social studies of health and illness, serving as both a key theoretical focus and a popular research method. Despite this, relatively little work has gone into conceptualising how and why illness narratives - be they in books, websites, television or other media - are commodified in contemporary healthcare and its social environment; namely, how distinc...

The Biographical Inventory in Naval Aviation Selection: Inside the Black Box The Biographical Inventory in Naval Aviation Selection: Inside the Black Box

Biographical Narratives of Encounter: The Significance of Mobility and Emplacement in Shaping Attitudes towards Difference

This paper is located within work in urban studies about the significance of contact with difference as a means for reducing prejudice and achieving social change. Recent approaches, influenced by theories of affect, have emphasised non-conscious everyday negotiations of difference in the city. In this paper it is argued that such approaches lose sight of the significance of the subject: of the...