2023
DOI: 10.1177/21676968231217781
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“Being Sick Does Not Define You”: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making of Autoimmune Disease in Emerging Adult Women in the U.S.

Jacqueline N. Gunning,
Jody Koenig Kellas

Abstract: The onset of autoimmune disease (AD) in emerging adulthood is a disruptive illness experience that is difficult to make sense of. Compounded by hegemonic ideologies, including the master illness narrative of restitution and stereotype of the hysterical female patient, women with AD struggle with narrative coherency. Guided by the retrospective storytelling heuristic of communicated narrative sense-making theory (CNSM), the present study investigates the meanings, values, and beliefs found in emerging adult wom… Show more

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