Narrative medicine : honoring the stories of illness / Rita Charon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charon, Rita, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narrative medicine.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physician and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Narrative medicine emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. This book provides an introduction to the principles of narrative medicine and guidance for implementing narrative methods.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

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

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770770-X

0-19-988321-1

1-280-84077-3

0-19-975985-5

1-4294-0276-8

OCLC:

1406785610