Narrative Medicine The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process

Name: Narrative Medicine The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process
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ISBN: 9781591430650

ISBN-10: 1591430658

ISBN-13: 9781591430650

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lewis Mehl-Madrona

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Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient's own story in the healing process - Shows how conventional medicine tends to ignore the account of the patient - Presents case histories where disease is addressed and healed through the narrative process - Proposes a reinvention of medicine to include the indigenous healing methods that for thousands of years have drawn their effectiveness from telling and listening Modern medicine, with its high-tech and managed-care approach, has eliminated much of what constitutes the art of healing: those elements of doctoring that go beyond the medications prescribed. The typically brief office visit leaves little time for doctors to listen to their…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bear & Company
Publication date: 6/11/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D., is certified in family practice, geriatrics, and psychiatry and worked for years in rural emergency medicine. He is the author of Healing the Mind Through the Power of Story, Narrative Medicine, Coyote Healing, Coyote Wisdom, and the bestselling Coyote Medicine. He lives in Rochester, NY.