International Helath Humanities Network: Humanities Subject Area Reports

Reflective capacity, i.e. the critical analysis of knowledge and experience – connecting with affective experience - to achieve deeper meaning and understanding, guiding future behavior is integral to core health care professional practice competencies. The use of reflection can foster empathy and humanistic practice and help guide health care practitioners as they encounter the complexity that is inherent to clinical practice.

The research component of this project sits within narrative inquiry as a moral endeavour in the human sciences; the pedagogy of suffering in the sociology of health and illness; and mental health narrative recovery.

The book, the stories, the people: an ongoing dialogic narrative inquiry study combining a practice development project. Part 1: the research context (PDF)