Patients Making Meaning
Bryna Siegel Finer, "Patients Making Meaning "
English | ISBN: 1032503947 | 2023 | 122 pages | EPUB, PDF | 999 KB + 1486 KB
English | ISBN: 1032503947 | 2023 | 122 pages | EPUB, PDF | 999 KB + 1486 KB
This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making.
Combining focus group research, content analysis, autoethnography, and textual inquiry, the book argues that the making and remaking of what we call “patient epistemologies” is a continual process wherein a health flashpoint―sometimes a new diagnosis, sometimes a reoccurrence or worsening of an existing condition or the progression of a natural process―can cause an individual to be thrust into a discourse community that was not of their own choosing.
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