Abstract:This article explores the representation of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease in the television series The Good Wife and The Michael J. Fox Show. We suggest that serial narration offers intriguing ways to rethink the function and meaning of narratives in health contexts, and that the episodic narrative form of television series may afford insights into the structure of medical encounters. Specifically, we examine to what extent serial narration, with its focus on continuity and repetition, might help reimagine the typical narrative of decline, which is implicit in the terminology of neurodegeneration, as well as the narrative of (premature) closure or finitude that often accompanies a diagnosis such as Parkinson's disease. With the dual perspective of a literature and film researcher and a medical practitioner specializing in neurology, we bring serial narration into conversation with the representation of chronic illness and disability on one hand and actual clinical encounters on the other.

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待续：系列叙述、慢性病和残疾

摘要：本文探讨了迈克尔·J·福克斯的帕金森病在电视剧《好妻子》和《迈克尔·J·福克斯秀》中的表现。我们认为连续叙事提供了一种有趣的方式来重新思考叙事在健康环境中的功能和意义，并且电视剧的情节叙事形式可以提供对医疗遭遇结构的洞察。具体来说，我们研究了以连续性和重复性为重点的连续叙事在多大程度上可能有助于重新构想典型的衰退叙事，这是隐含在神经退行性术语中的，以及（过早的）闭合或有限的叙事，通常伴随诊断如帕金森病。