Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western Medicine
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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 individuals relationship with society. By explicating narrative theory through the lens of cognitive anthropology, Meza reframes the epistemology of narrative and 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, Mezas 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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Author: James Meza
Format: Hardback |1138631426pages
Dimensions:156 x 234 x 20.32mm | 513g
Publication Date: 43307
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1138631426
ISBN 13: 9781138631427