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Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy: Listening to Marginalised Voices

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 205 pp.

Contains index

Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities

ISBN 978-0-367-34917-32

Signature commbox: 10-Development-E 2017

"The book develops theoretical, methodological, and practical resources for listening to digital stories through a series of carefully selected international case studies, from dementia care education to campaigns in the UN to ban cluster munitions. The case studies explore and illuminate different ways that digital stories have – and have not – been listened to in the past. The authors expose the great potential as well as the complexity of using powerful personal stories in practice. Together, the case studies highlight that processes of listening to, learning from, and making use of digital stories involve unavoidable processes of reinterpretation, recontextualisation, and translation which have significant ethical and political implications for storytellers, listeners, and society." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction, 1
2 Listening environments, 15
3 Listening in professional education, 54
4 Listening for service improvement in primary and acute healthcare settings, 88
5 Listening in community and place-based health promotion, 122
6 Are policy makers listening? 150
7 Hope, contradictions, and an interdisciplinary future, 190