Author: Rita Charon
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0195340221
Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Medical books Narrative Medicine. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beginnings, middles, and ends, and by establishing connections among things using metaphor and figural language, narrative medicine helps doctors to recognize patients and diseases, convey knowledge, accompany patients through the ordeals of illness--and according to Rita Charon, can ultimately lead to more humane, ethical, and effective health care.
Trained in medicine and in literary studies, Rita Charon is a pioneer of and authority on the emerging field of narrative medicine. In this important and long-awaited book she provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the conceptual principles underlying narrative medicine, as well as a practical guide for implementing narrative methods in health care Medical books User-Driven Healthcare and Narrative Medicine .... User-Driven Healthcare and Narrative Medicine Medical Information Science Reference 9781609600976 09781609600976
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Categories: Narration (Rhetoric), Professional-patient relations, Communication. Contributors: Rita Charon - Author. Format: Hardcover
Categories: Narration (Rhetoric), Professional-patient relations, Communication. Contributors: Rita Charon - Author. Format: Hardcover
Categories: Narration (Rhetoric), Professional-patient relations, Communication. Contributors: Rita Charon - Author. Format: NOOK Book
Medical Book Narrative Medicine
Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beginnings, middles, and ends, and by establishing connections among things using metaphor and figural language, narrative medicine helps doctors to recognize patients and diseases, convey knowledge, accompany patients through the ordeals of illness--and according to Rita Charon, can ultimately lead to more humane, ethical, and effective health care.
Trained in medicine and in literary studies, Rita Charon is a pioneer of and authority on the emerging field of narrative medicine. In this important and long-awaited book she provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the conceptual principles underlying narrative medicine, as well as a practical guide for implementing narrative methods in health care. A true milestone in the field, it will interest general readers, and experts in medicine and humanities, and literary theory.
