Affective Justice Through Narrative Methods
摘要
This chapter will look at the possibilities and limits of narrative methods to help work toward affective injustice for healthcare providers. In a first introductory section, I will review the debate on narrative methods to understand the context in which they have been promoted and their limitations. I will then investigate the ways and means narrative methods may provide affective resources and opportunities for healthcare providers. In this chapter, there is a dual goal I am seeking in promoting narrative methods. This includes improving the well-being of workers, but also improving care, in particular by promoting alternative means of institutional learning and reporting. As this is a large debate, I have chosen to focus on four narrative methods that are particularly promising for these two ambitions: (1) free-form journals written by healthcare professionals; (2) narrative medicine seminars in the hospital; (3) recording and safekeeping healthcare providers’ affects through narrative banks; (4) collective narratives gathered during interdisciplinary reflection and analysis of practice. Each of these methods will be analyzed and their possibilities and limits explored in the context of affective justice.