Hamideh Mahdiani, born in 1986, works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, university medical centre, Mainz. Trained in English and American Literary and Cultural Studies, she has been studying the topic of human resilience as a narrative form.
Her research focuses on human resilience as a social and narrative construct.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 9
Preface 11
Resilience Research: The Need for a Narrative Turn 13
Life Sciences and Narratives of Resilience 35
Narrative Enquiry on the Theme of Resilience in Fiction 51
A Memoir-Based Reading of Human Resilience 143
Resilience in Times of Economic Boom and Bust 167
Concluding Remarks 213