The Illness Narratives by Arthur Kleinman
Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition
A foundational work in medical anthropology that contrasts the clinical ‘disease’ perspective with the patient’s lived ‘illness’ experience, using case studies and cross-cultural examples to show how social context, personal meaning, and narrative shape suffering, diagnosis, caregiving, and healing; it critiques the limits of a purely biomedical approach and argues for clinicians’ attention to patients’ stories, moral worlds, and cultural frameworks to improve care and understanding.
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- Published
- 1988
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- American
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- English
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