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Narrative Medicine: Honoring the stories of illness
Rita Charon
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Description for Narrative Medicine: Honoring the stories of illness
Paperback. Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of patients. Charon argues that by making genuine contact with patients through storytelling, narrative medicine leads to more humane, ethical, and effective health care. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
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 recognise, 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 recognise patients and diseases, convey knowledge, accompany patients through ... Read more
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 recognise, 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 recognise patients and diseases, convey knowledge, accompany patients through ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
436g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195340228
SKU
V9780195340228
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99-99
Reviews for Narrative Medicine: Honoring the stories of illness
Rita Charon, MD, PhD, is a co-founder of the clinical practice known as narrative medicine...[and she] has written an academic book that seeks, successfully, to provide an intellectual foundation for her emerging field...Charon has written an erudite and courageous book.
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of the American Medical Association