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Title: Narrative strategies in medical discourse: Constructing the psychiatric "case" in a non-western setting.
Author: Coker, Elizabeth M.;
Abstract:
The organizing goal of the present study was to analyze and understand the "discursive presentation" of the Egyptian psychiatric patient through the texts, or narratives, contained within the patient medical charts. It is argued that the medical record, a
Journal: Social Science & Medicine, Vol 57(5), Sep 2003: 905-916.