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Learning Objectives
• Understand the educational potential of various forms of autobiographical storytelling about disease
• Be aware of the origins, main characteristics and specific educational potential of autobiographical health comics
• Acquire a familiarity with two comics about infertility
Autobiographical illness narratives
• Oral illness narratives (‘chaos’, ‘restitution’, ‘quest’): ‘The body sets in motion the need for new stories when its disease disrupts the old stories’ (Frank 1995: 2)
• (Auto)‐pathographies (‘didactic’, ‘angry’, ‘alternative’): ‘...an extended single‐author narrative, situating illness and treatment within the author’s life and linking them with the meaning of that life’ (Hawkins 1999: 128)
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