ABSTRACT
Health, Illness and Culture: Broken Narratives is a collection of studies and essays by an international group of researchers, some of whom have played a leading role in advancing the new multidisciplinary fi eld of studies on the interrelations among, illness, disability, health, society, and culture. Since the 1980s, this fi eld has expanded rapidly. At the same time there has been growing recognition that almost all of the phenomena within this fi eld are mingled with processes of human meaning making, processes that typically take the form of narrative. This has added to the study of health, illness, and culture a new repertoire of forms and methods of narrative and discursive inquiry, as well as an increased degree of complexity.
