The Shadow of Mikhail Bakhtin in the Narrative of our Disease

Abstract

Our illness narratives can be understood as one of archaic talk forms of indicating, demonstrating, explaining, and manifesting our oral experiences. Even though patients explaining ongoing their sufferings, this type of talk is coincidentally similar to post hoc narrative or in afterlife (Fortleben) form per se. Like chemical chain reaction, the endless form of narratives can also appear in the polyphonic talk forms, that Mikhail Bakhtin had formulated in his literary criticism on series of the Fyodor Dost

Our illness narratives can be understood as one of archaic talk forms of indicating, demonstrating, explaining, and manifesting our oral experiences. Even though patients explaining ongoing their sufferings, this type of talk is coincidentally similar to post hoc narrative or in afterlife (Fortleben) form per se. Like chemical chain reaction, the endless form of narratives can also appear in the polyphonic talk forms, that Mikhail Bakhtin had formulated in his literary criticism on series of the Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novels. The author discusses on structural strengths of illness narratives that attract for numerous students of health & medical sociology, and anthropologists.

oyevsky's novels. The author discusses on structural strengths of illness narratives that attract for numerous students of health & medical sociology, and anthropologists.