TY - CHAP AB - There has been growing interest in narrative ethics over the last three decades. However, narratology, or the study of narratives, has a much longer history dating back to Plato and Aristotle.3Structural linguistics, and its formal study of grammar and structure of language, was a major contributor to the development of the classification and interpretation of narratives.4This structuralist period was followed by an increased interest in the relationships between narratives and social and historical dynamics and ideologies. Key social theorists, such as Derrida, Bakhtin and Ricoeur, have urged us to consider the relationship of the text to the way we understand ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. In summary, the study of narratives long preceded its association with ethics, and it was only recently that the interest in narratives has been adopted by the health-care disciplines, notably medicine and nursing. VL - 9 SN - 978-0-7623-1438-6, 978-1-84950-501-7/1057-6290 DO - 10.1016/S1057-6290(07)09006-7 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1057-6290(07)09006-7 AU - Guillemin Marilys AU - Gillam Lynn ED - Barbara Katz Rothman ED - Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong ED - Rebecca Tiger PY - 2007 Y1 - 2007/01/01 TI - Ethical Mindfulness: Narrative Analysis and Everyday Ethics in Health Care T2 - Bioethical Issues, Sociological Perspectives T3 - Advances in Medical Sociology PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 157 EP - 178 Y2 - 2024/04/26 ER -