This series of art works is a commentary on how medicine creates its own “difficult patients”. It can also serve as an opportunity for critical reflection on how care professionals and patients, together, use their knowledge to enable better care and on the continued time, space, and trust they need to do so.
Art project: The ”difficult patient”
Dominant ideas and structures at the core of modern medicine create a kind of “ideal patient”. Processes of standardisation, normalisation, and patient activation suit certain patients but create problems for some bodies, needs, and ways of being.
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About
Digital art
- Sara-Lovise Ask Ewertson (@sara.lovise)
Idea and development
- Jelmer Brüggemann (Department of Thematic Studies and Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Linköping University)
- Lisa Guntram (Department of Thematic Studies and Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Linköping University)
- Ann-Charlotte Nedlund (Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences and Swedish National Centre for Priorities in Health, Linköping University)
Funding
This art project has been made possible through support by a Linköping University initiative to valorize knowledge assets (VFN) and the research project “What are you complaining about?” (supported by the Swedish Research Council no. 2020-01594).
Research ground
For further reference, please see: Brüggemann, J., Guntram, L. and Nedlund, A.-C. (2023) The ‘difficult patient’ – Dominant logics and misfits in medicine. In Liamputtong, P. (ed) Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health. Cham: Springer. pp. 1-14.
