“病志”——病患破碎自我的重构

Pathography:Reconstruction of the Patient's Disrupted Self

"病志"文学是20世纪后半叶出现的一个文学现象,是以病人的视角对疾病及治疗过程的记述,主要关注作者对疾病和治疗的理解和感受,以及疾病和治疗对作者生活的意义和影响。病志的意义和价值不只是使病志作者破碎的自我得以重构,也在于病志向读者呈现了一个真实的疾病经历,给读者以启示。病志作为见证的工具因此获得了其当代意义。

Pathography,a literary phenomenon emerging in the late 20 th century,is the patient＇s autobiographical accounts of his experience of illness and treatment which focus on his understanding and feeling about illness and treatment,and what they mean to him and how they affect him.The value of pathography does not only lie in helping the patient reconstruct his self disrupted by illness,but also in articulation of what the patient actually experienced in illness and its treatment,by which the readers are enlightened who have experienced the same as the author or who have not any experience of such.In this way,pathography as a means of witnessing has its modern value.