Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western Medicine

Name: Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western Medicine
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western MedicineAuthor(s): James Meza\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367588519, 978-0367588519\nSynopsis\nThe 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 re.