The process of symptomization: Clinical encounters with functional disorders

• Autores: Mette Bech Risor
• Localización: Of Bodies and Symptoms: Anthropological Perspectives on their Social and Medical Treatment / coord. por Sylvie Fainzang, Claudie Haxaire, 2011, ISBN 978-84-694-4991-2, págs. 21-37
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In medical anthropological research on manifestations of illness and the relationship between patient and healer, symptom presentation is often a crucial focus but the symptom as such is seldom taken as the point of departure. Based on a field study of patients with functional disorder this paper explores how bodily signs become symptoms and how they are interpreted in clinical settings. The paper draws on inspiration from Latour and Appadurai to illustrate a process of symptomization.