Stories from the margins
Immigrant patients, health care, and narrative medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17814078 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Gotlib (0000-0002-9143-8547, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 51-74 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1937-4577 • E-ISSN: 1937-4585 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/ijfab.2.2.51 |
| OpenAlex | W4251636191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In this paper, I address the marginalization of Russian immigrant patients within the American medical system. I argue that their already vulnerable position as immigrants with serious illnesses or conditions is exacerbated by unfamiliar social, cultural, and psychological terrain. This complex situation calls for a revision of the clinician–patient model in favor of a more comprehensive approach that takes seriously their double marginalization and its effects. I claim that one such approach, narrative medicine, can begin to address their marginalized status by attending to not only the symptoms of the body, but to the story of the illness experience
Health care · Immigration · Literature · Medical care · Narrative · Narrative medicine · Political science · Sociology · Empathy and Medical Education · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |