Solomon Islands: Divergent Discourses - The Epistemology Of Healing In An American Medical ...

Solomon Islands: Divergent Discourses - The Epistemology Of Healing In An American Medical Clinic And A Kwara‘ae Village Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo, and David Welchman Gegeo, 2011   Using the theoretical constructs “biographical disruption” and “limit experience” and also methodological frameworks from autoethnography and discourse analysis, we discuss the divergent ways in which language and healing are conceptualized and performed, first in an American medical clinic and then by traditional...

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