Narrative in Alternative Medicine
Journal title SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Author/s Domenico Secondulfo
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/2
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 37-49 File size 307 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2010-002004
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This essay examines the low impact of narrative medicine on complementary and alternative medicine. On the opposite side stands the general practice of the National Health Systems (In Italy: SSN) in which, several years of bureaucratization have been reduced the communication between doctor and patient, and the narrative medicine is in an unique position to bridge this communication gap. Instead, in the complementary and alternative medicine the health-care paradigm and its semantic structure help to develop both the communication between therapist and patient and the development of the self-reflexivity. This illustrates why narrative medicine does not represent an innovation in the "world of unorthodox medicine" and why it represents an innovative approach in general practice.
Keywords: Narrative medicine, alternative medicine, doctor-patient relationship, biography, sociology of health, illness
Domenico Secondulfo, La narrazione nelle medicine alternative in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" 2/2010, pp 37-49, DOI: 10.3280/SES2010-002004