Patients Making Meaning

Combining focus group research, content analysis, autoethnography, and textual inquiry, the book argues that the making and remaking of what we call "patient epistemologies" is a continual process wherein a health flashpoint―sometimes a new diagnosis, sometimes a reoccurrence or worsening of an existing condition or the progression of a natural process―can cause an individual to be thrust into a discourse community that was not of their own choosing.
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