Medical Ethics
Critique must encompass experience as seen by different discourse communities
Published in Mental Health Weekly Digest, March 17th, 2003
According to a study from Australia, "Discourse communities are groups of people who share common ideologies, and common ways of speaking about things. They can be sharply or loosely defined. We are each members of multiple discourse communities.
"Discourse can colonize the members of discourse communities, taking over domains of thought by means of ideology. The development of new discourse communities can serve positive ends, but discourse communities create risks as well. In our own work on the narratives of people with interests in health care, for example, we find...
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