Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 1182831
„I already look like a corpse“– negotiating death with inoperable cancer
„I already look like a corpse“– negotiating death with inoperable cancer // SIEF2021: Breaking the Rules: Power, Participation, Transgression
Helsinki: SIEF, 2021. 59160, 1 (predavanje, nije recenziran, sažetak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
„I already look like a corpse“– negotiating death
with inoperable cancer
Autori
Bukovčan, Tanja
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni
Izvornik
SIEF2021: Breaking the Rules: Power, Participation, Transgression
/ - Helsinki : SIEF, 2021
Skup
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF 2021) 15th Congress Breaking the rules? Power, Participation, and Transgression
Mjesto i datum
Helsinki, Finska, 19.06.2021. - 24.06.2021
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran
Ključne riječi
autoethnography, cancer death, patient narratives
Sažetak
The paper is an autoethnographic account of the final three months of my mother’s battle against inoperable rectohepatic cancer. The aim of the paper is to contrast her narrative and negotiating strategies with that of attending physicians in the chronological reality of the disease with death being its predicted and expected outcome. Discovering the points where those narrative strategies were potentially parallel and supportive or contrastive and opposite, will reveal the way in which they affected the choices of treatments the patients chose and/or was offered. Furthermore, the paper analyses the concepts of good and bad patient, the former being the compliant one and the latter being the demanding one, and the way they were formulated and perpetuated in the narratives and behaviors of the doctors and hospital staff. Finally, the paper will examine emerging and shifting realities of power, control and responsibility which were revealed in the timeline of imminent and approaching death. Methodologically, the paper presents an attempt to create valid scientifically relevant knowledge by combining the “normal” ethnographic research, done during eighty-six daily visits to the hospital through participation, observation and many formal and informal meetings with doctors, patients, hospital staff, taxi drivers, dog walkers or fellow smokers in front of the hospital, with the “abnormal”, painful, subjective content which unavoidably colored and shaded my perceptions and practices. I will try to reveal and discuss those potential shadings in knowledge creation
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija
