ANTC61H3 Chapter : Week 9 - The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace (Good)
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universalism in clinical science and local knowledge in clinical practice, stimulating a rethinking of the boundaries not only between science and society but also between the local and the global. It has become a part of the daily global circulation of popular business, and medical knowledge. The biotechnical embrace: the subjective experiences and affective responses of many clinicians and their patients when using new biotechnologies, high-technology experimental treatments, and even salvage therapies. Clinical narratives and ethnographic frames: derived to capture the dynamics of clinical interactions between oncologists (doctors who study/work with cancer) and their patients that evolve over time through arduous and often lengthy therapeutic journeys. Narrative analysis: concepts drawn from narrative analysis - plot, emplotment, and narrative time. In the american case, oncologists use clinical narratives to incorporate evidence-based medicine into clinical culture and to introduce therapeutic meaning through reliance on the findings of clinical trials and relevant research in the biosciences.
