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Биографическое измерение терминальной болезни, или есть ли альтернатива медицине?
The article analyzes the biographical case of cancer with problematized attitudeto traditional medicine. The author examines the biographical choices of the informant andthe problem of not following the medicalist treatment strategy. Optics using analytic methodsand social theory, the author seeks to show that living biographer’s disease and agree withthe diagnosis of a life inextricably linked with the social relations within which these termsaventureuse, namely in the framework of relations “doctor-patient”. The analysis of this socialdyad using the methods of anthropology and narratology brings us closer to the understandingof disease as a phenomenon mediated by the cultural codes of society, the dominant modelof which is the biomedical paradigm of studying the “diseased body”.