Stories that move? Peer athlete mentors' responses to mentee disability and sport narratives

Communicative disability and stories: Towards an embodied conception of narratives.

In this article we show that persons with communicative disabilities are often involved in storytelling that does not necessarily conform to the conventional expectations of what constitutes a narrative. By analyzing the relationship between story and storytelling event, and the relation between what could be called the primary storyteller and the vicarious storyteller, we show that storyteller...

Disability, sport and men's narratives of health: a qualitative study.

OBJECTIVE Very little research has been conducted that examines men, sport, masculinities, and disability in the context of health. Readdressing this absence, this article examines the health narratives told by spinal injured men and the work narratives do on, in, and for them. METHODS In-depth life history interviews and fieldwork observations with men (n = 17) who sustained a spinal injury ...

Mentoring the mentors: Aligning mentor and mentee expectations.

The Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research sponsored a symposium at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of University Radiologists, which focused on the issue of aligning mentor and mentee expectations to foster successful mentoring relationships. This article presents a summary of the informal discussion of the panelists' individual experiences, common themes, and insights gain...

Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play

Narratives and Neurons: Stories of Damaged Brains

Stories register in human memory in special ways, and stories about neurological cases can entertain and move a reader while simultaneously being an important part of any neuroscience curriculum. Here we describe a course taught in the context of the liberal arts curriculum of Baldwin-Wallace College. Students from a variety of disciplines learned basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neuroch...