Reconstructing the Self After Liver Transplantation

The study situates itself within a growing body of research at the intersection of applied linguistics, narrative medicine, and health humanities that has sought to examine illness experience through the lens of language and discourse. Scholars working in this tradition have demonstrated that the narratives through which patients articulate illness are not merely symptomatic expressions of underlying psychological states but constitutive acts through which identity, agency, and social positioning are actively produced.