The dominance of "illness narratives" in narrative healing studies
has tended to mean that the focus centers around the healing of the
individual. Meza proposes that this emphasis is misplaced and the
true focus of cultural healing should lie in managing the
disruption of disease and death (cultural or biological) to the
individual's relationship with society. By explicating narrative
theory through the lens of cognitive anthropology, Meza reframes
the epistemology of narrative and healing, moving it from
relativism to a philosophical perspective of pragmatic realism.
Using a novel combination of narrative theory and cognitive
anthropology to represent the ethnographic data, Meza's ethnography
is a valuable contribution in a field where ethnographic records
related to medical clinical encounters are scarce. The book will be
of interest to scholars of medical anthropology and those
interested in narrative history and narrative medicine.
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