Narrative Medicine Honoring the Stories of Illness

Name: Narrative Medicine Honoring the Stories of Illness
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ISBN: 9780195340228

ISBN-10: 0195340221

ISBN-13: 9780195340228

Edition: 2008

Authors: Rita Charon

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Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beginnings, middles, and ends, and by establishing connections among things using metaphor and figural language, narrative medicine helps doctors to recognize patients and diseases, convey knowledge,…

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List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English




What is Narrative Medicine



The Sources of Narrative Medicine



Bridging Health Care's Divides



Narrative Features of Medicine



Narratives of Illness



Telling One's Life



The Patient, the Body, and the Self



Developing Narrative Competence



Close Reading



Attention, Representation, and Affiliation



The Parallel Chart



Dividends of Narrative Medicine



Bearing Witness



The Bioethics of Narrative Medicine



A Narrative Vision for Health Care


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Index