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The chief concern of medicine : the integration of the medical humanities and narrative knowledge into medical practices / Ronald Schleifer and Jerry B. Vannatta with Sheila Crow and a contribution by Seth Vannatta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schleifer, Ronald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narration.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Medical History Taking.
- Medical Subjects:
- Narration.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Medical History Taking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An interdisciplinary project that aims at demonstrating the importance of humanistic understanding in the intellectual and everyday practices of medicine.
- Contents:
- The functional realism of medicine
- Modalities of science : narrative, phronesis, and the skills of medicine
- The chief concern of medicine : narrative knowledge and schema-based practice
- The logic of diagnosis : peirce, literary narrative, and the history of present illness
- The patient-physician relationship : the scene of narration
- The patient's story : the apprehension of narration
- Doctors listening and attending to patients : response and engagement with acts of narration
- Narrative and medicine : schemas of narration
- Narrative and everyday medical ethics : schemas of action
- Reading the death of Ivan Ilych.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-428) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472028863
- 0472028863
- 9781299159891
- 1299159893
- OCLC:
- 828140710
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