Diagnosis narratives and the healing ritual in western medicine / James Peter Meza.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st |
| Series: | Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9781351804981 1351804987 9781351804998 1351804995 9781351804974 1351804979 9781315208886 1315208881 |