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Narrative medicine : honoring the stories of illness / Rita Charon.
Holman Biotech Commons RC48 .C42 2006
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Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks RC48 .C42 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charon, Rita.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narrative medicine.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Narration.
- Professional-Patient Relations.
- Communication.
- Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Narration.
- Professional-Patient Relations.
- Communication.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 266 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Part I What Is Narrative Medicine?
- 1 The Sources of Narrative Medicine 3
- 2 Bridging Health Care's Divides 17
- 3 Narrative Features of Medicine 39
- Part II Narratives of Illness
- 4 Telling One's Life 65
- 5 The Patient, the Body, and the Self 85
- Part III Developing Narrative Competence
- 6 Close Reading 107
- 7 Attention, Representation, and Affiliation 131
- 8 The Parallel Chart 155
- Part IV Dividends of Narrative Medicine
- 9 Bearing Witness 177
- 10 The Bioethics of Narrative Medicine 203
- 11 A Narrative Vision for Health Care 219.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195166752
- OCLC:
- 60903182
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195166750
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