Emília Santos Costa

Narratives: Discovering the Social Dimensions of Disease

Bruno da Rocha Alves Lira, Leonardo Nunes Ferreira, Gabriel Pereira Bernardo, Lorena Pereira Bernardo, Ruth Figueiredo de Araujo, Marissa Rayanne Moreira de Alencar, Emília Santos Costa & Modesto Leite Rolim Neto · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2017

Narrative research includes a variety of approaches that rely on the written or spoken word, or on the visual expressions of individuals. These approaches typically focus on individuals’ lives from the lens of their own stories. The emphasis in such approaches is on the story, ty...