Lying And Illness: Power And Performance

by Van Dongen, Els; Fainzang, Sylvie

• ISBN13: 9789055892457
• ISBN10: 9055892459
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Transaction Pub

Table of Contents

Preface
Arthur Kleinman	1
Introduction
Sylvie Fainzang & Els van Dongen	5
Inventing a new death and making it believable
Margaret Lock	12
When doctors and patients lie to each other. Lying and power within the doctor-patient relationship
Sylvie Fainzang	36
Constructing and deconstructing the myth of the lying refugee: Paradoxes of power and justice in an administrative immigration tribunal
Cécile Rousseau, Patricia Foxen	56
A lie to die? The power of the theatre of lying
Els van Dongen	92
Disease or deception: Munchausen by Proxy as a weapon of the weak
Nancy Scheper-Hughes	113
The negotiation of truth and the power of deception in patient-healers encounters. The case of Gad in the Caribbean
Raymond Massé	139
Performing deception, deceptive performances and redirections. Exposures and misdirections concerning health and sickness in South Africa
Diana Gibson	157
To lie or not to lie. On the rhetoric and practice of two physicians and a psychiatrist
Josep Maria Comelles	174
On the authors	206