Doctors' stories : the narrative structure of medical knowledge / Kathryn Montgomery Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montgomery, Kathryn, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physician and patient.

Medical education--Philosophy.

Medical education.

Communication in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? Addressing readers on both sides of the patient-physician encounter, Kathryn Hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story--the patient's story of illness and its symptoms."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Interpreting medicine – Part 1: Medicine and interpretation – Chapter 1 Knowledge in medicine: reading the signs – Chapter 2 A science of individuals: medicine and uncertainty – Part 2: Narrative in medicine – Chapter 3 The representation of the patient – Chapter 4 ''There was this one guy . . . ": Anecdotes in medicine – Chapter 5 Writing up the case: charts and case reports – Chapter 6 An N of 1: clinical-pathological conferences and syndrome letters – Chapter 7 Patients, physicians, and red parakeets: narrative incommensurability – Chapter 8 A case for narrative

Notes – Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691214726 (electronic book)

9780691214726

0691214727

OCLC:

1227050260