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Doctors' stories : the narrative structure of medical knowledge /
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 H...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1991]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: interpreting medicine
- Knowledge in medicine: reading the signs
- A science of individuals: medicine and uncertainty
- The representation of the patient
- "There was this one guy ... ": anecdotes in medicine
- Writing up the case: charts and case reports
- An N of 1: clinical-pathological conferences and syndrome letters
- Patients, physicisans, and red parakeets: narrative incommensurability
- A case for narrative.