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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815018703321

Autore

Charon Rita

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-770770-X

0-19-988321-1

1-280-84077-3

0-19-975985-5

1-4294-0276-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

616.07/51

Soggetti

Narrative medicine

Narration (Rhetoric)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.