Open AccessBiographical dimension of terminal illness or is there an alternative to medicine?
Author(s) -
Сергей Вячеславович Старцев
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
inter/interakciâ. intervʹû. interpretaciâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2687-0401
pISSN - 2307-2075
DOI - 10.19181/inter.2019.20.5
Subject(s) - dyad , dimension (graph theory) , narratology , sociology , phenomenon , epistemology , psychoanalysis , psychology , narrative , social psychology , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , pure mathematics
The article analyzes the biographical case of cancer with problematized attitude to traditional medicine. The author examines the biographical choices of the informant and the problem of not following the medicalist treatment strategy. Optics using analytic methods and social theory, the author seeks to show that living biographer’s disease and agree with the diagnosis of a life inextricably linked with the social relations within which these terms aventureuse, namely in the framework of relations “doctor-patient”. The analysis of this social dyad using the methods of anthropology and narratology brings us closer to the understanding of disease as a phenomenon mediated by the cultural codes of society, the dominant model of which is the biomedical paradigm of studying the “diseased body”.