Representations of Self-care Treatment Practices in Patients’ and Doctors’ Discourses: Between Non-compliance and Agency
Representations of Self-care Treatment Practices in Patients’ and Doctors’ Discourses: Between Non-compliance and Agency

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses discursive representations of self-treatment practices in light of the concepts of the “voice of medicine” and “voice of the life world” coined by e. Mishler. This discursive approach highlights patients’ agency and reflexivity toward treatment and doctors’disapproval of these same agentic constructions. For doctors the “voice of medicine” provides the only valid treatment option, with life world elements interfering in the healing process.

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