英文摘要
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This paper analyzes illness experiences and medical encounters of an alternative medicine group-the Evergreen Health Center in Hualien City, Taiwan-which mainly accepts cancer patients. This group consists of a center host, patients and their families. They live together at the Center for a few days, use a prescribed diet and a ”spontaneous gong” as primary methods of convalescence. The illness and medical experiences of these patients originate essentially from the uncertainty of the effects of institutional medicine, and unpleasant physician-patient relationships. Nonetheless, they still reveal a seemly helpless, but not totally hopeless, ”Days must pass by!”, attitude. Thus, they seek the relief of alternative medicine from this Health Center. Through illness narratives, this paper finds that these patients reflect current medical knowledge and social institutions, and presents a re-evaluation of illness experiences toward personal sentiments, daily behavior, and conventional values. This paper discovers that in this health center the healer, patients, and family members constitute a religious, ethical, technical, and ritually significant therapeutic process. It is this multi-dimensional therapeutic process that encourages the patients to not only construct meaning to their illnesses but also create meaning to their lives.
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