What Are Illness Narratives

question 21

Multiple Choice

What are illness narratives?

• A) stories based on a physician's assessment of an illness
• B) the personal stories that people tell to explain their illness
• C) ethnographic studies of disease and illness
• D) narratives provided by anthropologists to physicians

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