Abstract：Aging, disease and death are three major events in one’s life course. They are so vital in human life that they have given rise to a range of disciplines dedicated to their studies. This paper focuses on the last phase of life course of late adulthood, starting from the diagnosis of incurable cancer to the brain death. In this phase, aging, disease and death, separated indefinitely before, are compressed and experienced intensely, death preoccupying the minds of the patient, the doctor and the relatives. Adopting narrative medicine as its theoretical framework, the paper first reviews the medical doctors’ narration of death, including those who are “the wounded storytellers”. Aged dying cancer sufferers and their relatives are recruited to narrate their experiences. A sample of their narrative discourse is analyzed in terms of biomedical reasoning and narrative reasoning. The differences between the two contribute to the misunderstandings and communication failures between doctors and patients/relatives.
温颖茜，滴 石. 基于叙事医学理论的老病死叙事话语探析[J]. 语言战略研究, 2019, 4(5): 58-70.
Wen Yingxi and Di Shi. Aging, Disease and Death: A Narrative Medicine Approach. , 2019, 4(5): 58-70.
