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Moral Tourists and World Travelers: Some Epistemological Issues in Understanding Patients' Worlds
- Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 10, Number 3, September 2003
- pp. 209-223
- 10.1353/ppp.2004.0012
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Drawing on metaphors of travel and tourism, I distinguish between epistemological stances that clinicians can adopt when attempting to understand how patients experience their world and their illness. I argue for a particular stance, called world traveling, that involves a shift in clinicians' own commitments, perceptions, and values. I identify barriers to this model but also suggest ways a version of world traveling may be implemented.