title: [Instances of alienation: portrait of the torn patient. 2. Medical apparatus and dominant discourses].
abstract: The first part of the article focused on the individual mechanisms--body, psyche and relational context--alienating the patient. The second part addresses alienating mechanisms related to the medical apparatus and the dominant discourses produced within and by society. The aim is not to comprehensively list possible mechanisms, but to discuss some of them using illustrative examples.
authors.forename: Friedrich
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stiefel
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bourquin
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saraga
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*