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A Care-Full Diagnosis:
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Killingsworth, Ben Kokanovic, Renata Tran, Huong Dowrick, Chris |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | Journal: Medical Anthropology Quarterly It is often argued that Western medical responses to illness take illness out of the intimate social contexts within which illness becomes meaningful for people and that, as a result, Western medicine can often constitute an ineffective or, at worst, a disempowering response to illness. While not wishing to challenge such arguments, we seek in this article to present material that might serve as a useful caveat to them. Drawn from interviews conducted as part of an Australian study exploring cross-cultural understandings and experiences of mental illness, we present the accounts of three Vietnamese Australian women. In these accounts, the diagnoses of mental illness that these women had received from their Australian doctors were not presented as being meaningless or disempowering. Rather, as the women presented it, being seen and treated as mentally ill had precipitated and continued to precipitate a sense of belonging and self-worth. |
| Ending Page | 123 |
| Starting Page | 108 |
| ISSN | 2573508X |
| e-ISSN | 15481387 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2010.01087.x |
| Journal | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 24 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publisher Date | 2010-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Medical Anthropology Quarterly Biomedical Social Sciences Cross‐cultural Translation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine Anthropology Visual Arts and Performing Arts |
