The Fragility of Healing
EthosPublished 1 March 2001Open access
Cheryl Mattingly, Mary Lawlor
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An anatomy of two dramatic moments is offered, investigating not only how healing dramas are constructed between patients and healers but how and why institutional discourses and practices invite their abandonment.
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This article explores a paradox-the simultaneous cultivation and suppression of "healing dramas" by pediatric rehabilitation therapists. Dramatic moments are defined as ones in which the routine exercises and treatment activities of therapeutic practice are transformed into narrative plots. These improvisational plots involve multiple characters, risks, suspense, and above all, a heightened sense that something is at stake. Experience itself becomes the focus of attention for the patient. Based upon ethnographic research in Chicago and Los Angeles, this article offers an anatomy of two such moments, investigating not only how healing dramas are constructed between patients and healers but how and why institutional discourses and practices invite their abandonment.
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