Digital post by Yirby Content warning: death, suicide In his book, The Wounded Storyteller, Arthur Frank introduces three narrative types used to describe illness. Put briefly, restitution narratives look at illness as something to be cured, chaos narratives imagine illness as something that never gets better, and quest narratives are ones that accept illness… Read More
Blog post by Katana Rider The creative text by Laura Shepherd, “Forgiving the Future,” published in GUTS Magazine (2016) was a great connection and exemplar for one of Arthur Frank’s narrative he discusses in The Wounded Storyteller. The most intriguing aspect of this creative text is possibly the image that Shepherd used; which I understood… Read More
Digital Post by Ally_EdwardSaid De Jager et al. (2017) explain that digital storytelling (DST) practices are often underfunded as there is an expectation to conform to traditional research formats. This is unfortunate, as DST holds much promise for countering dominant ways of knowing. I argue that while traditional research methods in biomedicine (such as Randomized Controlled… Read More
Digital Post by Yirby A year ago, Chika Stacy Oriuwa was completing her degree at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine. As a member of an underserved and radicalized group, she became accustomed to micro- and macro-aggressions that questioned how she could succeed in academic spaces as a Black woman and medical student.… Read More
Post and podcast by Honourable_Baron The Baron explores and reflects the creative impact of Catherine Hernandez’s novel, Scarborough, on his life as a resident of the district of Scarborough.… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Zainab Throughout his book The Wounded Storyteller, sociologist Arthur Frank does many comparisons of the various types of illness narratives. As a result, while I was reading the novel Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez, I couldn’t help but identify some of the illness narratives present in this novel. Besides the story line itself (which involves… Read More
Podcast and Post by HLTD50 student T.Kamen In this first installment of the T-cast, T. Kamen discusses Catherine Hernandez’s novel Scarborough. Beginning with a brief overview of the novel, she then delves deep into her personal life finding connections with the characters. T. Kamen showcases that even if you aren’t from Scarborough, through the powerful… Read More
Podcast and post by HLTD50 students Shining_Diamond_17 and hhhipster In this podcast, two HLTD50 students reflect on the novel Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez, and how it is indirectly a collection of stories of health and illness in Toronto. Click on the image below to listen:… Read More
Podcast and post by HLTD50 student KAKhalfan In this first episode of the KamKast, KAKhalfan recollects stories of his experiences as a first-generation Canadian transitioning between cultural expectations. Through discussing certain characters in Catherine Hernandez’s award-winning novel Scarborough, he connects aspects of their stories to those of the significant individuals within his own life. He… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Shining_Diamond_17 What is an outlier and what makes them so special? Malcolm Gladwell, in his best-selling book Outliers, takes two definitional approaches to defining this term: In mathematics, an outlier is “a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.” In other words, it’s a point… Read More