Patient stories, narratives of resistance and the ethics of humane care

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Datos Bibliográficos

ID4218173
AutoresElliot G Mishler (Harvard Medical School, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen9
Número4
Páginas431-451
Fecha de publicación2005-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHealth An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363459305056412
PMID16144787
OpenAlexW2159832810
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas33
Referencias citadas59

Over the past 20 years, the study of patient-physician relationships and the discourse of clinical encounters has become a major area of inquiry. Interest in these topics is closely linked to an ethic of humane care, reflecting widespread criticism of a technocratic approach to clinical practice. A narrow framing of this approach led to the neglect of a category of patients' socially grounded accounts of their illness and treatment experiences referred to as 'narratives of resistance'. The problem addressed in this article is the lack of connection, in research and practice, between an approach grounded in a humane care ethic and an ethic of social justice that addresses the impact of social and economic inequalities on rates of illness and access to health care. The aim is to open up a critical discussion among researchers, health care educators, practitioners and patients about relationships between ethical standpoints, clinical practice and research

Criticism · Grounded theory · Health care · Narrative · Neglect · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Technocracy · Ethics in medical practice · Health, Medicine and Society · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology