“I must have contracted swine flu, bird flu or Ebola.”: How patients and general practitioners negotiate liminality during consultations, 2020, Bank

[Dolphin]

“I must have contracted swine flu, bird flu or Ebola.”: How patients and general practitioners negotiate liminality during consultations

Mads Bank & Lotte Huniche (in press)

To be published in: ’Theorising Liminality: Between Art and Life’, edited by Brady Wagoner and Tania Zittoun, with forward by Jaan Valsiner. Springer.

Abstract
When bodies and minds cease to function in silence, everyday lives get disrupted and self-understandings unsettled. We wonder whether we are ill, what ails us, and how it will affect the immediate or long-term future. Through the theoretical lens of liminality, experiences of illness have been described in terms of uncertainty and affective destabilization. In the context of healthcare, liminality is countered by a search for causal explanations, diagnoses, and effective treatment. Little attention has been directed towards how the liminality of illness/disease is managed as patients and medical professionals interact.

This is available on a free site online https://www.academia.edu/44181445/B...gotiate_liminality_during_consultations_final , but you have to give an email address or login with Google or Facebook, so to save people doing that I am uploading it here as an attachment.

 

[Arnie Pye]

For those people (like me) who don't know what liminality means :

Liminality
In anthropology, liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.Wikipedia

From dictionary.com :

liminality

noun Anthropology.
the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.

Edit : I started reading the article, but even finding out what "liminal" means hasn't helped me to understand it.

 

[Snow Leopard]

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Brown, B., Huszar, K., & Chapman, R. (2017). ‘Betwixt and between’; liminality in recovery stories from people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Sociology of health & illness, 39(5), 696-710.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28239872/

 

[Dolphin]

Was this flagged in your watchlist for citing this paper?
Brown, B., Huszar, K., & Chapman, R. (2017). ‘Betwixt and between’; liminality in recovery stories from people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Sociology of health & illness, 39(5), 696-710.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28239872/

It came up in a basic Google Scholar alert I have for “ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”. I thought there was a chance it might say something of interest.

 

[alktipping]

so patients are supposed to negotiate their diagnosis is that not the doctors job . do the test let the results tell you which infection you had although for cost reasons most just give you the diagnosis that is going around at the time you visit .