THE ILLNESS NARRATIVES
Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition
Arthur Kleinman
HarperCollins, 1988
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers of this book should understand the application of a meaning-centered medical anthropology to chronic illness and the centrality of patient narratives in illness and treatment.
As a medical student, Kleinman found that getting patients to tell their stories was a key to beginning their process of healing. As a medical anthropologist, he followed this process through many cultures. He presents his findings and its implications for moving medical anthropology closer to being centered on meaning, for health psychology to better understand patients from other cultures, and for medicine to enable healing in chronic illness.
Arthur Kleinman, M.D. is a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and The Cambridge Hospital and Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is author of PATIENTS AND HEALERS IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE and SOCIAL ORIGINS OF DISTRESS AND DISEASE.
11 CE credits; 267 pages
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