Life after opioid‐involved overdose: survivor narratives and their implications for ER/ED interventions

Three women who survived bombings as children during the Algerian War (1954-1956) published autobiographies of their recovery between 2012 and 2016. Danielle Michel-Chich had a leg amputated when she was five after a bombing in Algiers, Nicole Simon’s legs were burned and scarred from a bombing in Mostaganem when she was fifteen and Delphine Renard was blinded and disfigured at the age of four when a bomb exploded in her Parisian home. Each woman recounts the pain and guilt of survival and grapples with how to reciprocate the care they received. Using a social justice framework, this essay examines how narratives of care build connections between people. As the child survivors of terrorist attacks cope with medical and personal care after bodily trauma, writing becomes a major part of self-care in the recovery process.

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Spiritual distress to spiritual transformation: Stroke survivor narratives from Hong Kong

Journal of Aging Studies ◽

10.1016/j.jaging.2010.06.001 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 313-324 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Esther O.W. Chow ◽

Holly Nelson-Becker

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Stroke Survivor ◽

Spiritual Transformation ◽

Spiritual Distress ◽

Survivor Narratives

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“I’m Over It”: Survivor Narratives AfterWoman-to-Woman Partner Abuse

Partner Abuse ◽

10.1891/1946-6560.4.3.380 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 380-398 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Rebecca Barnes

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Partner Abuse ◽

Illness Narratives ◽

Linear Process ◽

Active Recovery ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Chaos Narrative ◽

Survivor Narratives ◽

Depth Interviews

This article uses qualitative data gathered through semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 40 women in the United Kingdom who identified as having experienced abuse (physical, sexual, emotional, and/or financial) in a previous same-sex relationship. Participants’ narratives of “life after abuse” are examined through two lenses; the first contributing to understandings of the varied and enduring material, psychological and relational impacts of abuse, and the second offering insights into the cultural values that shape such narratives. Applying Arthur Frank’s (1995) illness narratives, this article argues that narratives emphasizing recovery (“restitution”) or transformation (“quest”) are culturally privileged over a “chaos” narrative. It also proposes a fourth narrative of “active recovery.” The article concludes that recovery from partner abuse is neither a linear process nor one guaranteed to reach an end point. Further research is needed to understand how to better support survivors of partner abuse to move toward recovery.

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“It’s Not JUST Skin Cancer”: Understanding Their Cancer Experience From Melanoma Survivor Narratives Shared Online

Health Communication ◽

10.1080/10410236.2016.1250707 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 188-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Smita C. Banerjee ◽

Thomas A. D’Agostino ◽

Mallorie L. Gordon ◽

Jennifer L. Hay

Keyword(s):

Skin Cancer ◽

Cancer Experience ◽

Survivor Narratives

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Institutional Survivorship: Abandonment and the “Machinery of the Establishment”

Canadian Journal of Disability Studies ◽

10.15353/cjds.v6i3.368 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 118 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Madeline Burghardt

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Social Relations ◽

Historical Record ◽

Capitalist System ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Political Conditions ◽

The Impact ◽

Survivor Narratives

Institutions are a central and painful feature in the historical record of the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities in Canada. To date, scholarly work has provided a robust understanding of the multiple intersecting factors and “political rationalities” (Chapman, 2014) that have contributed to institutions’ development, including their relationship with capitalism’s “exploitative social relations of production and consumption” (Erevelles, 2014, para. 6). Accounts from institutional survivors that describe the direct and lived experience of institutionalization have begun to emerge in Canadian disability studies and historical canons. Based on research that examined the impact of institutionalization on families, this paper draws from survivor narratives to explore the alienation and abandonment that survivors experienced as a result of having been institutionalized. It interrogates the connection between survivors’ experiences and the function of their alienation in the workings of a capitalist system. Additionally, this paper addresses some of the historical, social and political conditions of the time and place of concern (post World War II Ontario), and discusses how those conditions created a discourse of persuasion in the institutionalization of children with intellectual disabilities.

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