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From Particularities to Context: Refining Our Thinking on Illness Narratives.
AMA J Ethics
March 2017
Associate professor at the University of California, Riverside, and the associate director of the Center for Healthy Communities, and a cultural and medical anthropologist with research interests in the political economy of health and the role of narrative in medical encounters.
This paper examines how illness narratives are used in medical education and their implications for clinicians' thinking and care of patients. Ideally, collecting and reading illness narratives can enhance clinicians' sensitivity and contextual thinking. And yet these narratives have become part of institutionalizing cultural competency requirements in ways that tend to favor standardization.
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