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Edited by two leading general practitioners and with contributions from over 20 authors, this book covers a wide range of topics to do with narrative in medicine. It includes a wealth of real examples of patients' narratives and addresses theoretical and practical issues including the use of narrative as a therapeutic tool, teaching narrative to students, philosophical issues, narrative in legal and ethical decisions, narrative in nursing, and the narrative medical record.
| ISBN | 0727912232 | | Pages | 290 | | ISBN13 | 9780727912237
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | BMJ Publishing Group | | Weight (grammes) | 368 | | Imprint | BMJ Books | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 01 Nov 1998 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 610.1 | | Spine width (mm) | 16 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate |
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| | | Contributors | | | | | | Foreword | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction | | | | 1 | | Why study narrative? by Trisha Greenhalgh and Brian Hurwitz | | 3 | | 2 | | The words we live in by Anna Donald | | 17 | | | | Illness Stories | | | | 3 | | The median isn't the message by Stephen Jay Gould | | 29 | | 4 | | The night my life changed by Robert McCrum | | 34 | | 5 | | The good bleed guide by Donald Bateman | | 38 | | 6 | | Stories of dying: therapeutic writing in hospice care by Gillie Bolton | | 45 | | 7 | | Narratives of childhood epilepsy: have I got epilepsy or has it got me? by Henrietta Weinbren and Paramjit Gill | | 55 | | | | The conker tree by Trisha Greenhalgh | | 70 | | | | Narrative in Medicine | | | | 8 | | Pain narratives by Richard Bayliss | | 75 | | 9 | | Following the story: continuity of care in general practice by Iona Heath | | 83 | | 10 | | Narrative and mental health in primary care by John Launer | | 93 | | 11 | | Sirens, stray dogs, and the narrative of Hilda Thomson by Marshall Marinker | | 103 | | 12 | | Narrative in surgery by James Owen Drife | | 110 | | | | Dear Tom by Trisha Greenhalgh | | 118 | | | | Learning and Teaching Narrative | | | | 13 | | Literature in medicine by Stephen Rachman | | 123 | | 14 | | Teaching humanities in the undergraduate medical curriculum by Harriet A. Squier | | 128 | | 15 | | The golden narrative in British medicine by Stuart Hogarth and Lara Marks | | 140 | | | More... | | |
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