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Who Makes the Stories, Medical Professionals or Patients?

Tuesday, July 15, 2014: 11:20 AM
Room: F205
Distributed Paper
Ken TAKENAKA , Fuculty of Letters, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Hokkaido, Japan
I am really interested in the arguments which should save patients more ‘narrative based medicine' or 'narratives in Medicine'? In my point of view, carers including medical professions should more forcus on patients stories about their illness and life. When patients' narratives are controlled by medical professioners, even if it had been ‘for medical treatments', patients are cotrolled by others. That might means one's life is possibly controlled by medical stuffs which are strongly connected medical governance in their country. For instance, ones narratives about “How to die” or “how to give birth” should easily connected to economical point of view in one's country through the conversation with medical stuffs that should reflected by the systematic medical standards. I may contribute to your session as a small research-based argument rather than theoretical one. I have researched both alcoholics anonymous group and self help groups for mental illness in Hokkaido, Japan. Patient's narratives are strongly controlled by medical stuff indeed in Japan. This should be the result of ‘Narrative Medicine' had been done in Japan I guess. If people focus on patient's Narrative more, they might have another chance to live more successfully. I wish I could show you some case studies of strongly controlled narratives of patients though Japanese mental carers at a self-help group. I will supply a small material for the argument who is to draw patient's narratives.