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

• Autore: Charon Rita
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 pages)
• Disciplina: 616.07/51
• Soggetto topico: Narrative medicine; Narration (Rhetoric)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Narrative medicine
• ISBN: 0-19-770770-X; 0-19-988321-1; 1-280-84077-3; 0-19-975985-5; 1-4294-0276-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815018703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.