Adjuvant chemotherapy: an autoethnography
Autor: | Trisha Greenhalgh |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Subjectivity
Psychotherapist Social Psychology Adjuvant chemotherapy 030503 health policy & services Interpretation (philosophy) Autoethnography Existentialism 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Harm Narrative 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science Psychology Applied Psychology Legitimacy |
Zdroj: | Subjectivity. 10(4) |
ISSN: | 1755-635X 1755-6341 |
Popis: | Adjuvant chemotherapy is given after surgery for early stage cancer. It aims to cure. Though potentially toxic, it has dramatically improved survival for some cancers. This paper offers an autoethnographic exploration of three kinds of strangeness that I encountered during a 12-week course of adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer: The material strangeness of what was done to me; the lived-body strangeness of receiving chemotherapy (which makes people sick to make them well) and the existential strangeness of reconstructing my broken narrative. In a discussion, I consider four aspects of autoethnography of deep illness against which this account and its telling might be judged: ethnographic legitimacy (does it meet the standards of analytic social science?), autobiographical legitimacy (is it compelling as literature?), existential ethics (am I, the wounded storyteller, protected from harm?) and relational ethics (have I discharged my duties towards those implicated in the text and its interpretation?). |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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