Beyond the Bedside

A Narrative Model of Knowledge Translation in Reproductive Health

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This book makes a bold but crucial claim: storytelling is not an embellishment to medical knowledge-it is the engine that drives it. Evidence becomes meaningful only when it is framed and interpreted within existing stories. Focusing on reproductive health, Beyond the Bedside explores diverse understandings of medical evidence in relation to some of today's most contested topics, including embryo selection in IVF, puberty blockers for transgender youth and abortion care. Across these cases, the authors reveal how identical evidence can lead to starkly different syntheses, guidelines, and public positions, depending on the narratives into which it is woven. Introducing the concept of deep knowledge translation, the book offers a new way of analysing how evidence moves across research, clinical practice, policy, law, and public debate. It shows why medical controversies persist and how understanding narrative dynamics can transform the way we produce and use knowledge. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-31
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor136
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781047756280

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Eivind Engebretsen is Professor of Medical Humanities, University of Oslo and Dean of Circle U Open Campus. He has worked with Julia Kristeva to develop a translational approach to the medical humanities, is author of numerous articles in leading journals, and author/co-author of seven books, including Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics (CUP, 2022, with Mona Baker). Mona Baker is Affiliate Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway. Professor Baker is also co-coordinator of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network, and Honorary Dean of the Graduate School of Translation & Interpreting at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She is the author of Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics (CUP, 2022, with Eivind Engebretsen).

1. Introduction; 2. Narrative Perspectives on Medicine; 3. Modes of Narration – Evidence-based Medicine and Knowledge Translation; 4. Narrative Framing of Puberty Blocker Research in Transgender Youth Healthcare; 5. Narratives of (Ab)normality – IVF and Mosaic Embryos; 6. Contested Evidence and Narrative Authority in WHO's 2022 Abortion Care Guideline; 7. Towards a Narrative Model of Knowledge Translation; References; Index.