Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.16.3.2
The Narrative Medicine Reconstruction of Identity through Personal Narrative
Darija Rupčić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of J. J. Strossmayer Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
The intention of this paper is to highlight and reflect on the development of one tradition that considers the importance of cultural influences on health and illness. Delicate balance between illness and culture is what constitutes the elusive truth of illness and post-modern understanding of the illness as biocultural phenomenon in biocultural model. By putting an emphasis on this narrative, we will critically overview the existing dominant biomedical model of illness and we will consider the possibility of introducing a new biocultural model of illness expanding the existing biomedical model. In that context the narrative medicine has evolved, assuming that mere scientific knowledge and clinical medical practice are insufficient in the circumstances of the patient’s personal struggle with the illness, and thus recognizes, absorbs and reinterprets his experience. The expected scientific contribution of this work will go towards the possibilities of theoretical and practical foundation and a search for the possibility of the different pluriperspective approach to illness and health.
Keywords
illness; health; biocultural and biopsychosocial model; narrative medicine; metaphors of illness; narrative identity; explanatory model of illness
Hrčak ID:
209162
URI
Publication date:
21.11.2018.
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