英文摘要 |
The author serves as a counselor in a university student resource center, and offers help to students with physical and/or psychological disabilities. Her grandfather and mother are both bonesetters. As a grad student, she decided to study and practice the family art of bone setting with her mother. Using narrative inquiry and action research methods, this article describes her involvement and discoveries during this process. The author describes how she continuously explored her own family history and life story using a frame of sexual/gender, politics and history. At the end, she was able to develop a path of self-fulfillment and a sense of meaning, and connect with her family’s bone setting cultural history. |