Metagnosis

Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity

Danielle Spencer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

386 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-751076-6 (ISBN)

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Bridging memoir with key concepts in narratology, philosophy and history of medicine, and disability studies, this book identifies and names the phenomenon of metagnosis: the experience of learning in adulthood of a longstanding condition. It can occur when the condition has remained undetected (e.g. colorblindness) and/or when the diagnostic categories themselves have shifted (e.g. ADHD). More broadly, it can occur with unexpected revelations bearing upon selfhood, such as surprising genetic test results. Though this phenomenon has received relatively scant attention, learning of an unknown condition is often a significant and bewildering revelation, one that subverts narrative expectations and customary categories. How do we understand these revelations? In addressing this topic Danielle Spencer approaches narrative medicine as a robust research methodology comprising interdisciplinarity, narrative attentiveness, and the creation of writerly texts.

Beginning with Spencer's own experience, the book explores the issues raised by metagnosis, from communicability to narrative intelligibility to different ways of seeing. Next, it traces the distinctive metagnostic narrative arc through the stages of recognition, subversion, and renegotiation, discussing this trajectory in light of a range of metagnostic experiences-from Blade Runner to real-world mid-life diagnoses. Finally, it situates metagnosis in relation to genetic revelations and the broader discourses concerning identity. Spencer proposes that better understanding metagnosis will not simply aid those directly affected, but will serve as a bellwether for how we will all navigate advancing biomedical and genomic knowledge, and how we may fruitfully interrogate the very notion of identity.

Danielle Spencer, Ph.D. is a faculty member of the Columbia University Narrative Medicine Program. Co-author of Perkins-Prize-winning The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2017), her scholarly and creative work appears in diverse outlets from The Lancet to Ploughshares. Formerly David Byrne's Art Director, Spencer holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and is a 2019 MacDowell Fellow.

Preface

Part I: Metagnosis
Chapter 1: Diagnosis
Chapter 2: Treatment

Part II: Sight
Chapter 3: Flatsight
Chapter 4: Halfsight
Chapter 5: Blindsight

Part III: Seeing Metagnosis
Chapter 6: Recognition
Chapter 7: Subversion
Chapter 8: Renegotiation

Part IV: Looking Forward
Chapter 9: Metagnostic Narratives
Chapter 10: Freedom

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Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 213 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-19-751076-0 / 0197510760
ISBN-13	978-0-19-751076-6 / 9780197510766
Zustand	Neuware