TY - JOUR
T1 - Professional patienthood and mortality
T2 - Seán Ó ríordáin’s diaries 1974-1977
AU - Breathnach, Ciara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - Unwieldy by nature, unsolicited diaries and their study, this article contends, have the potential to offer deeper insights into the experience of illness but only if they receive due consideration from scholars. This article uses a series of historic diaries to examine the concept of ‘professional patienthood’ or being a full-time patient, and, while it found the narrative medicine approach to be very useful, it also found it limiting. The recent methodological trends in biomedicine and social sciences towards structured mechanisms like questionnaires— surveying and evaluating performance, satisfaction and experience—can only go so far. This article makes a case for the unsolicited, the unorthodox and the unstructured.
AB - Unwieldy by nature, unsolicited diaries and their study, this article contends, have the potential to offer deeper insights into the experience of illness but only if they receive due consideration from scholars. This article uses a series of historic diaries to examine the concept of ‘professional patienthood’ or being a full-time patient, and, while it found the narrative medicine approach to be very useful, it also found it limiting. The recent methodological trends in biomedicine and social sciences towards structured mechanisms like questionnaires— surveying and evaluating performance, satisfaction and experience—can only go so far. This article makes a case for the unsolicited, the unorthodox and the unstructured.
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U2 - 10.1136/medhum-2015-010828
DO - 10.1136/medhum-2015-010828
M3 - Article
C2 - 26733424
AN - SCOPUS:84969662867
SN - 1468-215X
VL - 42
SP - 92
EP - 96
JO - Medical Humanities
JF - Medical Humanities
IS - 2
ER -