Practice question · Multiple choice
Bury called serious chronic diagnosis a biographical disruption. What does that name claim that 'a difficult diagnosis' does not?
Hints
- A biography is a narrative with a direction. Ask what a diagnosis does to the direction.
- The word is doing work that 'difficult' does not. Name the thing that breaks.
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B. That the story the person was living in has broken
Why
The claim is that what breaks is the narrative, not merely the mood: who I am, what I assumed my sixties held, what I can promise anyone. That is why symptom control alone can leave a patient adrift, the medicine treats the body and the biography is still in pieces.
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