@article{ref1,
title="Medical narrative and the rhetoric of identification: the many faces of Anna White Dildane",
journal="Health communication",
year="2016",
author="Crick, Nathan and Gabriel, Joseph M.",
volume="31",
number="11",
pages="1318-1326",
abstract="When Anna White Dildane, a prostitute and heroin addict, was committed to the Laboratory of Social Hygiene (LSH) in 1917, she was treated by a staff that anticipated the methods of the biopsychosocial model later developed by Engel. That is to say, the staff members believed that Anna's rehabilitation was contingent on a scientific diagnosis of the physical, mental, and social factors that underlay her condition. However, using Anna and the LSH as a case study, we draw from Latour to show the limitations of this &quot;modern&quot; method of diagnosis and treatment that persists today. Using Burke, we advocate for a pragmatic orientation focused on creating rhetorically oriented narratives whose aim is to help patients make judgments about their health and future, namely, by bringing about the experience of &quot;form&quot; capable of constituting new types of identification. Effective medical rhetoric thus adopts a method of persuasion that begins with the narrative and self-understanding of the patient, links aspects of that narrative with the technical expertise of physicians and other health care providers, and crafts a new, more specialized narrative attentive to the desires and constraints of a patient's form of identification that is ultimately the seat of judgment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1041-0236",
doi="10.1080/10410236.2015.1052870",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2015.1052870"
}