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Discourse and Mental Health - Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings (Paperback)
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Discourse and Mental Health - Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Discourse Studies Series
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This book is the result of years of fieldwork at a public hospital
located in an immigrant neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It
focuses on the relationships between diversity and inequality in
access to mental healthcare through the discourse practices,
tactics and strategies deployed by patients with widely varying
cultural, linguistic and social backgrounds. As an action-research
process, it helped change communicative practices at the Hospital's
outpatient mental healthcare service. The book focuses on the
entire process and its outcomes, arguing in favor of a critical,
situated perspective on discourse analysis, theoretically and
practically oriented to social change. It also proposes a different
approach to doctor-patient communication, usually conducted from an
ethnocentric perspective which does not take into account cultural,
social and economic diversity. It reviews many topics that are
somehow classical in doctor-patient communication analysis, but
from a different point of view: issues such as the sequential
organization of primary care encounters, diagnostic formulations,
asymmetry and accommodation, etc., are now examined from a locally
grounded ethnographic perspective. This change is not only
theoretical but also political, as it helps understand patient
practices of resistance, identity-making and solidarity in contexts
of inequality.
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