Metagnosis
Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 March 2021
- ISBN 9780197510766
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages386 pages
- Size 213x147x33 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English 83
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Short description:
Bridging memoir with key concepts in disability studies, narratology, and philosophy of medicine, Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity explores an experience many of us have faced: Learning of a longstanding fact about oneself, whether it is a medical condition or new knowledge concerning one's genetic heritage. How do we understand these revelations? What do they have to teach us about the way we construct medical knowledge? How can we empower ourselves to navigate these terms? What are the implications for our understanding of identity itself? With a highly readable yet intellectually nuanced and profoundly interdisciplinary approach, Metagnosis draws the reader into dialogue with these essential questions.
MoreLong description:
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.
Metagnosis has an intellectual sophistication that gives health humanities increased credibility by commanding a broad readership. Spencer moves beyond programmatic writing proclaiming the need for health humanities; she demonstrates what can be done in this new field. Her full length, intricately integrated book shows specifically medical issues as one aspect of how society is based on a distribution of knowledges that, by categorizing identities, affect who people think they are and who they believe they can be.
Table of Contents:
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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