Guzman2015

From emcawiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Guzman2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Guzman2015
Author(s) Jennifer R. Guzman
Title The epistemics of symptom experience and symptom accounts in mapuche healing and pediatric primary care in Southern Chile
Editor(s)
Tag(s) Medical EMCA, Epistemics
Publisher
Year 2015
Language English
City
Month
Journal Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Volume 24
Number 3
Pages 249–276
URL Link
DOI 10.1111/jola.12055
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title
Chapter

Download BibTex

Abstract

Because symptoms are quintessentially subjective phenomena, individuals generally exercise primary epistemic rights and speaking privileges concerning their experience of symptoms. Yet in some diagnostic practices, this ordinary association between self-knowledge and speaking rights is disrupted, and the responsibility to report on illness is allocated to someone other than the ailing person. This article documents two such settings, Chilean pediatric primary care and Mapuche medicine, and discusses how the epistemological frameworks of these healing traditions and the pragmatic concerns of their participants influence the distribution of legitimate knowledge about illness and the allocation of speaking responsibilities across practitioners, patients, and family caregivers. 

Notes