Introduction
Narratives and storytelling have been espoused with the development of our sense of self and personal identity. Illness on the other hand has been shown to potentially impact on the development of the self and identity. Medical sociologists create a distinction between disease and illness describing disease in terms of biology that is the underlying pathology and illness as the social response to diseases especially in light of the fact that we exist within a social context. Illnesses therefore have no biological basis and are termed social constructs of diseases. In essence therefore, the way a particular illness is perceived varies from ...
