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Family health narratives: midlife women's concepts of vulnerability to illness.

Health (London, England : 1997) - 1 Jul 2008

Lindenmeyer Antje, Griffiths Frances, Green Eileen, Thompson Diane, Tsouroufli Maria

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Perceptions of vulnerability to illness are strongly influenced by the salience given to personal experience of illness in the family. This article proposes that this salience is created through autobiographical narrative, both as individual life story and collectively shaped family history. The article focuses on responses related to health in the family drawn from semi-structured interviews with women in a...

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PMID: 18579628
DOI: 10.1177/1363459308090049

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