Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western Medicine

James Meza

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Routledge
30 June 2020

Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology

"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 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, 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."

By: James Meza
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9780367588519
ISBN 10: 036758851X
Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Appendix A: Individual patient narratives Appendix B: Doctors talk about work Appendix C: Codebook and themes

James P. Meza is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Science at Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and is a practising doctor of medicine (MD).