„Pacjent bada lekarza”

• Authors: Monika Ładoń

Title variants

EN

“The patient examines the doctor”

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses the patient-doctor relationship in terms of Rita Charon’s concept of narrative medicine. The discussion is based on an interpretation of Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death, a collection of essays written by American writer and literary critic Anatole Broyard after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Writing about the ordeals of life and death, the author devoted a lot of attention to his meetings with doctors. Particularly in the essay The Patient Examines the Doctor, he points to a certain power struggle that takes place between the person who is ill and their physician. While physicians are generally believed to be in a privileged position, Broyard argues that they are also subjected to a similar, often equally painful, diagnosis process. His reflections on an ideal doctor (embodied by Oliver Sacks) turn out not to be completely utopian. Confronted with Rita Charon’s theses on narrative medicine, they seem to gain scientific confirmation.

Keywords

PL

medycyna narracyjna; pacjent; lekarz; rita charon; anatole broyard

EN

narrative medicine; patient; doctor; rita charon; anatole broyard

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 107
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 159-169

Contributors

author

Monika Ładoń

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2019.107.12

Biblioteka Nauki

1856859