CRIM 2653 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5.2: Narrative, Biomedicine, Upper Class
23 May 2020
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Many people use an interview technique that try to understand how the social world affects and is affected by illness. This is a method taught by medical schools but has some flaws. They materialize the models as a kind of substance or measurement (like hemoglobin, blood pressure or xrays) and use it to end a conversation rather than to start a conversation. Explanatory models need to open clinicians to human communication and set their expert knowledge alongside the patient"s own explanation and viewpoint. It is crucial to acknowledge and affirm a person"s experience of ethnicity and illness. The clinician can communicate a recognition that people live their ethnicicty differently, that the experience of ethnicity is complicated but important, and that it bears significance in a healthcare setting. Step 3: the illness narrative-reconstruct the patient"s illness narrative. This involves a series of questions aimed at acquiring an understanding of the meaning of illness.
