Biographical dimension of terminal illness or is there an alternative to medicine?
How to Cite
Startsev S.V. Biographical dimension of terminal illness or is there an alternative to medicine?. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2019. Vol. 11. No. 20. P. 97-113. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2019.20.5 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article analyzes the biographical case of cancer with problematized attitude to traditional medicine. The author examines the biographical choices of the informant and the problem of not following the medicalist treatment strategy. Optics using analytic methods and social theory, the author seeks to show that living biographer’s disease and agree with the diagnosis of a life inextricably linked with the social relations within which these terms aventureuse, namely in the framework of relations “doctor-patient”. The analysis of this social dyad using the methods of anthropology and narratology brings us closer to the understanding of disease as a phenomenon mediated by the cultural codes of society, the dominant model of which is the biomedical paradigm of studying the “diseased body”.
Keywords:
biographical interview, clinical reality, medical anthropology, mnemonic rituals, doctor-patient relationship
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Castro E. (2017) Kanibalskie metafisiki. Rubezhi posttrukturnoi antropologii [Cannibal Metaphysics]. M.: Ad Marginem Press. (In Russ.)
Freidson E. (1970) Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge. NY: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Garro L. (1994) Narrative Representations of Chronic Illness Experience: Cultural Models of Illness, Mind, and Body in Stories Concerning the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ). Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 38. No. 6. P. 775—788. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(94)90150-3.
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Gordon G. (1966) Role Theory and Illness. New Haven, Conn.; College and University Press.
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Kleinman A. (1988) The Illness Narratives. Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition. NY: Basic Books.
Kosa J., Antonovsky A., Zola I.K. (eds) (1969) Poverty and Health. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Lehcier V. (2016) Practiki nadezhdy v americanskoi onkologii: po motivam empiricheskih medico-antropologicheskih issledovaniy [Practices of hope in American oncology: based on empirical medical and anthropological research]. Sociologiya vlasti [Sociology of power]]. Vol. 28. No. 1. P. 170—184. (In Russ.)
Mall А. (2017) Voploshennoe deistvie, osyshestvlennyie tela: primer gippoglekimii [The embodied action, implemented bodies: an example of hypoglycemia]. Logos. Vol. 27. No. 2. P. 233—262. (In Russ.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.22394/0869-5377-2017-1-233-259.
McKinlay J. (1972 (1967) The Sick Role-Illness and Pregnancy. Social Science and Medicine. No. 6. P. 561—572. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0037-7856(72)90072-8.
Parsons T. (1951) The Social System. NY: Free Press.
Pietroni P.C. (1992) Alternative Medicine: Methinks the Doctors Protest Too Much and Incidentally Befuddles the Debate. Journal of medical ethics. No. 18. P. 23—25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.18.1.23.
Rozhdestvenskaya E. (2012) Biograficheskiy metod v sociologii [Biographical method in sociology]. M.: HSE Publishing House. (In Russ.)
Schon D.A. (1984) The Crisis of Professional Knowledge and the Pursuit of an Epistemology of Practice. Massachusetts: Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Schutz A. (1962).Collected Papers. The Problem of Social Reality.Vol. 1. Published by The Hague, Nijhoff, 1962.
Schuetze F. (1983) Biographieforschung und narrative Interview. Neue Praxis. No. 3. P. 283—293.
Sorokin P., Merton R. (2004) Social’noe vremia: opit metodologicheskogo I funkcionalnogo analiza [Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis]. Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. No. 6. P. 112—119. (In Russ.)
Twaddle A. (1969) Health Decisions and Sick Role Varietions. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. No. 10. P. 105—115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2948358.
Young J.C., Garro L.C. (1994) Medical Choice in a Mexican Village. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Zdraivomislova E., Temkina A. (2011) Doveritel’noe sotrudnichestvo vo vzaimodeystvie vracha i pacienta: vzglyad akushera-ginekola [Trustful cooperation in interaction of the doctor and the patient: the view of the obstetrician-gynecologist]. In: E. Zdraivomislova, A. Temkina (eds) Zdorovie i intimnaya zhizn’: sociologichskie podhody [Health and intimate life sociological approaches]. SPb.: EUSPb. P. 23—52. (In Russ.)
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Startsev, S. V. (2019). Biographical dimension of terminal illness or is there an alternative to medicine?. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, 11(20), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2019.20.5
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