Cocreation or collusion: the dark side of consumer narrative in qualitative health research
Pascal, J. and Sagan, O. (2016) Cocreation or collusion: the dark side of consumer narrative in qualitative health research. Illness, Crisis & Loss. p. 1. ISSN 1054-1373
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Abstract
Health, mental health, and social care policy are dominated by the imperative of employing person-centered approaches. Such involvement of the “consumer” is generally claimed to provide a counter-narrative to the psychiatric and medical paradigm of illness. Taking a critical and reflexive standpoint, we find ourselves asking: Is there a dark side to employing person-centered approaches and potential loss and risk to participants themselves? To explore these questions further, we undertook a condensed critique of the current mental health, health, and social care policy arena. We then move to methodological concerns about ways in which person-centered research, including our own, can inadvertently reproduce the neoliberalist agenda. To conclude, we offer our own lived experiences as a cautionary tale. We also posit that a post-Foucauldian governmentality framework can assist researchers to avoid contributing to the very problems we wish to resolve.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Published by SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
| Divisions: | School of Social Science |
| Depositing User: | Emma Sansby |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2016 15:42 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2018 16:09 |
| URI: | https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/92 |
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