From sick role to narrative subject
An analytic memoir
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5159619 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A W Frank (0000-0001-6345-2387, University of Calgary, Canada; Betanien University College, Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-21 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363459315615395 |
| PMID | 26582351 |
| OpenAlex | W2381721363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 26 |
Questions of illness experience and identity are discussed, based on the analysis of a story told by the breast-cancer activist Audre Lorde. Displacing Parsons' conceptualization of illness as a sick role, I understand the ill person as a narrative subject, defined by discursive possibilities. Three discourses of illness are proposed: the medical institutional discourse, the discourse of illness experience, and the pink-ribbon discourse. Each has its preferred narratives. These discourses overlap and mutually affect each other. Problems with the Foucauldian conceptualization of the subject are considered, and a dialogical imagination of relations of governmentality is proposed
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Memoir · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Empathy and Medical Education · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
To Be Continued
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Institutional role conflict in the digital age
The Alberta Mental Health Act 2010 and Revolving Door Syndrome
Aha! “take on Me’s”
The sociology of cancer
I'm Not a Bad Mom, I'm a Sick Mom
Beyond access
Illness Narratives Through the Eyes of Parents of Children With End-Stage Renal Disease
Sick of the Sick Role
Democratising diagnoses? The role of the depathologisation perspective in constructing corporeal trans citizenship
Narratives of reconstruction
As if I was a spacecraft returning to Earth's atmosphere. Expanding insights into illness narratives and childhood cancer through evocative autoethnography
No one wants to be a good patient
Strategic Storytelling
Not a film about my slackness
A language of Ill Feelings
The struggle for recognition
The Nature of Suffering
Letting Stories Breathe
The Renewal of Generosity
Narrative Medicine
The Sick Role and the Role of the Physician Reconsidered
Studies in ethnomethodology
Discipline and Punish
Stigma
Frame analysis
Ordinary Ethics
Behavior in Public Places
The Logic of Practice
Homo Sacer
Tricksters and Truth Tellers
Moral Laboratories
Action theory and the human condition
Interaction Ritual Chains
The breast-cancer-ization of cancer survivorship
Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
The Accompaniment
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |