雷蒙德·卡佛诗歌的疾病叙事及医学人文关怀

Illness Narrative and Medical Humanities in the Poetry of Raymond Carver

雷蒙德·卡佛的诗歌中大量出现后现代元病理人文元素。卡佛对“疾病”的讲述是对社会的压抑与生命困境发出的微弱吁求,也是面对和承担精神压力时的生理与心理反馈。他的诗歌作为非常有价值的阅读和阐释的素材,能够有效地引发医学生和医学教育者的深度反思。诗中有关解剖室和对医患关系以及临终关怀的描述和对人格的冷静拆解充分体现了医学人文关怀,这有助于重建医生和患者之间的共情联系,有助于重拾“将患者看作一个完整个体”的人性化理念。

Raymond Carver's poetry is preoccupied with the human condition and the metapathographic fashion. Carver's narrative of "illness" is a weak appeal to social repression and life predicament, as well as physiological and psychological feedback when facing and bearing mental stress. As a valuable material for reading and interpretation, his poetry can effectively arouse the deep reflection of medical doctors and medical educators. The descriptions of the autopsy room, of patient-doctor relations, of hospice care and the chilling dismantling of personhood bring out the medical humanism in Carver's verse which contributes to re-establishing empathic bonds between doctors and patients, and to re-humanize the patient as a whole person in the context of contemporary health institutions.