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NRDR: Further Reading

Beaugrande, R. de. (1980). Text, discourse, and process: Toward a multidisciplinary science of texts. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

Black, J. B. & Bower, G. H. (1980). Story understanding as problem solving. Poetics,9, 223-250

Brooks, C. & Warren, R. P. (1959). Understanding Fiction. (2nd ed.) New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Bury, M. (1982). Chronic illness as biographical disruption. Sociology of Health and Illness, 4, 1167-1182.

Carpenter, C. (1994). The experience of spinal cord injury: The individual's perspective––implications for rehabilitation practice. Physical Therapy, 74, 614-629.

Charmaz, K. (1983). Loss of self: A fundamental form of suffering in the chronically ill. Sociology of Health and Illness, 5, 168-195           

Coles, R. (1989). The call of stories: Teaching and the moral imagination. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Crewe, N. (1997). Life stories of people with long-term spinal cord injury. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 4, 26-42.

Dossey, L. (1991). Meaning and medicine. New York: Bantam.

Duggan, C. H. & Dijkers, M. (1999).  Quality of life––peaks and valleys: A qualitative analysis of the narratives of persons with spinal cord injuries.  Canadian Journal of Rehabilitation, 12, 179-189.

Duggan, C. H. (2000). ‘God, if you’re real, and you hear me, send me a sign:” Dewey’s story of living with a spinal cord injury. Journal of Religion, Disability & Health 4, 57-79.

Eareckson Tada, J. (1996). Joni: An Unforgettable Story. 20th Anniversary Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Zandervan Publishing Co.

Epstein, M. J., Albright, K. J., Duggan, C. H., Jeji, T., and Tate, D. G. (2006).  Narrative Form Index and Matrix, Expanded Version.

Farrarotti, F. (1981). On the autonomy of the biographical method. In D. Bertaux, (Ed)
Biography and society. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

Franks, A. W. (1995).  The wounded storyteller:  Body, illness, and ethics.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Frank, G. (1984). Life history model of adaptation to disability: The case of a congenital amputee. Social Science and Medicine, 19, 639-645.

Frank, G. ( 1996). Life histories in occupational therapy clinical practice. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 50, 251- 264.

Hillyer, B. (1993) Feminism and disability.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Hockenberry, J. (1995). Moving violations: War zones, wheelchairs and declarations of independence. New York: Hyperion.

Holman, H. C. (1972). A handbook to literature. Based on the original by W. F. Thrall and A. Hibbard. (3rd Ed.). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

Karp, G. & Klein, S.D. eds. (2004). From There to Here: Stories of Adjustment to Spinal Cord Injury. Horsham, PA:No Limits Communications, Inc.

Kemp, B., Krause, J. S., & Adkins, R. (2001).  Depression among African-Americans, Latinos, and Caucasians with spinal cord injury:  An exploratory study. Rehabilitation Psychology, 44, 235-247.

Kleinman, A. (1988). The illness narratives: Suffering, healing, and the human condition.  New York: Basic.

Kleinman, A. (1992). Local worlds of suffering: An interpersonal focus for ethnographies of illness experience. Qualitative Health Research. 2, 127-134.

Kovic, R. (1976). Born on the Fourth of July. New York: Pocketbooks.

Krause, J. S., & Anson, C. A. (1997).  Adjustment after spinal cord injury:  Relationship to gender and race.  Rehabilitation Psychology, 42, 31-46.

Linton, S. (1998). Claiming disability:  Knowledge and identity.  New York:  New York University Press.

Linton, S. (2005).  My body politic.  Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Madden, D. (1979). A primer of the novel: For readers and writers. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Mancuso, J. C. & Sarbin, T. R. (1983). The self narrative in the enactment of roles. In T. R. Sarbin & K. E. Scheibe (Eds.) Studies in Social Identity. New York: Praeger.
Mattingly, C. (1991). The narrative nature of clinical reasoning. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45, 979-986.

Mattingly, C. (1994). The concept of therapeutic employment. Social Science and Medicine. 38, 811-822.

Meade, M. A., Lewis, A., Jackson, M. N., and Hess, D. W. (2004). Race, employment, and spinal cord injury. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 85, 1782-92.

Mills, C. W. (1959). The sociological imagination. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Mitchell, D. T. &  Snyder. S. L. (2000). Narrative prosthesis:  Disability and the dependencies of discourse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Murphy, R. (1987). The body silent.  New York:  Henry Holt & Company.

Nosek, M.A. & Walters, L.T. (1998). Community integration of women with spinal cord injuries:  an Examination of psychological, social, vocational, and environmental factors.  Topics in SCI Rehabilitation, 4(2), II, 41-55.

Parker, I. (in press) Qualitative psychology: Introducing radical research. Berkshire, UK: Open University Press.

Peloquin, D. (1993). The depersonalization of patients: A profile gleaned from narratives.  The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 47, 830-837.

Rahman, R., Albright, K. J., and Yaroslavsky, I. (2005).  Perceived stress and life satisfaction in women with a spinal cord injury:  An exploratory look at racial differences. SCI Psychosocial Process, 18(1), 1, 6-8.

Reeve, C. (1998). Still me. New York: Ballantine Books.

Rumelhart, D. E. (1975). Notes on a schema for stories. In D. G. Bobrow & A. Collins, (Eds.). Representation and understanding: Studies in cognitive science, (pp. 211-236). New York: Academic Press.

Saxton, M. & Howe, F., (Eds.) (1987). With wings: An anthology of literature by and about women with disabilities. New York: Feminist Press.

Scheer, J. & Luborsky, M. L. (1991).  Post-polio sequelae: The cultural context of polio biographies.  Orthopedics, 14, 1173-1181.

Schmerzler, A. J., Goldstein, J., & Parkin, K. (2001).  Women, spinal cord injury, and domestic violence: A review.  In D. F. Apple (Series Ed.) & M. Sipski (Vol. Ed.), Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Vol. 7. Women and SCI (1st ed., pp. 37-41).  St. Louis, MO: Thomas Land Publishers.

Spencer, J. C., Young, M. E., Rintala, D., & Bates, S. (1995). Socialization to the culture of a rehabilitation hospital: An ethnographic study. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy. 49, 53-62.

Spencer, J. C., Davidson, H. A., White, V. (1996). Continuity and change: Past experience as adaptive repertoire in occupational adaptation. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy.  50. 526-534.

Tate, D. G., Albright, K.J., Duggan, C.H., Epstein, M.J., Harrison, J., Jeji, T., Lequerica, A.H., Roller, A., Rahman, R.O., & Schoen, B.Final Report: Stress and Coping Over the Life Course: A Perspective on Women with Spinal Cord Injury. Three-year, field-initiated research grant funded (beginning 9/01/02) by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (#H133G020060). Unpublished.

Thorndyke, P. W. (1977). Cognitive structures in comprehension and memory of narrative discourse. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 77-110.

Wendell, S. (1996). The rejected body:  Feminist philosophical reflections on disability.  New York: Routledge, 1996.

Wilson, J. C. & Lewiecki, C. eds. (2000).  Embodied rhetorics:  Disability in language and culture.  Carbondale, IL:  Southern Illinois University Press.

Yoshida, K. (1993).  Reshaping the self: A pendular reconstruction of identity among individuals with traumatic spinal cord injuries. Sociology of Health and Illness, 15, 217-245.

Zola, I. K. (1982).  Ordinary lives: Voices of disability & disease.  Cambridge, MA: Applewood Books.