UID:
almahu_9949384377002882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations (black and white)
Edition:
1st
ISBN:
9781351804981
,
1351804987
,
9781351804998
,
1351804995
,
9781351804974
,
1351804979
,
9781315208886
,
1315208881
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology
Content:
The dominance of "illness narratives" in narrative healing studies has tended to mean that the focus centers around the healing of the individual. Meza proposes that this emphasis is misplaced and the true focus of cultural healing should lie in managing the disruption of disease and death (cultural or biological) to the individual's relationship with society. By explicating narrative theory through the lens of cognitive anthropology, Meza reframes the epistemology of narrativeand healing, moving it from relativism to a philosophical perspective of pragmatic realism. Using a novel combination of narrative theory and cognitive anthropology to represent the ethnographic data, Meza's ethnography is a valuable contribution in a field where ethnographic records related to medical clinical encounters are scarce. The book will be of interest to scholars of medical anthropology and those interested in narrative history and narrative medicine.
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Methods -- 1 Fieldwork methods -- 2 The theoretical frame -- Part II The diagnosis narratives -- 3 Entrance into the field -- 4 Who is narrating and what story are they telling? -- 5 Spatial cognitions -- 6 The doctor tells the diagnostic story to the patient -- 7 Joint attention to the diagnostic narrative -- 8 Spatial therapy -- Part III Ritual healing in Western medicine -- 9 Ritual theory -- 10 Disease as an existential threat -- 11 Qualifications of a leech -- 12 Healing relationships -- 13 When the healing ritual fails -- Part IV The body politic -- 14 The business of medicine -- 15 Overdiagnosis and overtreatment -- Part V Narrative studies on healing reconsidered -- 16 Narrative healing reconsidered -- 17 Theoretical synthesis -- 18 Reflections of a healer -- Appendices -- Appendix A Individual patient narratives -- Appendix B Doctors talk about work -- Appendix C Codebook and themes -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781138631427
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315208886
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315208886
