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.
| ISBN | 0195340221 | | Pages | 284 | | ISBN13 | 9780195340228
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 416 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press Inc | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 14 Feb 2008 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | RC48 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 616.0751 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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PART I WHAT IS NARRATIVE MEDICINE?; 1. The Sources of Narrative Medicine; 2. Bridging Health Care's Divides; 3. Narrative Features of Medicine; PART II NARRATIVES OF ILLNESS; 4. Telling One's Life; 5. The Patient, the Body, and the Self; PART III DEVELOPING NARRATIVE COMPETENCE; 6. Close Reading; 7. Attention, Representation, and Affiliation; 8. The Parallel Chart; PART IV DIVIDENDS OF NARRATIVE MEDICINE; 9. Bearing Witness; 10. The Bioethics of Narrative Medicine; 11. A Narrative Vision for Health Care; References; Index
This is a great book, but not one for fast assimilation. This is a book that takes much work to understand, but readers will be warmly rewarded for their efforts...well done. Doody's Notes It is a compelling mix, backed by the unusual authority of a physician who is also a literary scholar. ... Narrartive Medicine is practical enough to be beneficial to the clinician, yet sufficiently theoretical to serve as a seminal text in the field. Even master clinicians can gain from the knowledge and skills presented here. Charon has written an inspired and inspiring book; and, in her stories of patients and students, she is a role model for us all. The Lancet, Vol 370,
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