Narrative medicine : honoring the stories of illness /

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In this important and long-awaited book Rita Charon 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Charon, Rita
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Narrative medicine.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Medical personnel and patient.
Communication.
Physician and patient.
Misinformation.
Narration
Professional-Patient Relations
Communication
Medicine
Physician-Patient Relations
Médecine narrative.
Relations médecin-patient.
Narration.
Relations personnel médical-patient.
Information.
Mésinformation.
MEDICAL > Laboratory Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diagnosis.
MEDICAL > Nursing > Assessment & Diagnosis.
Physician and patient
Medical personnel and patient
Narrative medicine
Anamnese (geneeskunde)
Ziektegeschiedenissen.
Arzt.
Patient.
Gespräch.
Klinische Medizin.
Kommunikation.
Health and Wellbeing.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. What is narrative medicine?
  • The sources of narrative medicine
  • Bridging health care's divides
  • Narrative features of medicine
  • pt. 2. Narratives of illness
  • Telling one's life
  • The patient, the body, and the self
  • pt. 3. Developing narrative competence
  • Close reading
  • Attention, representation, and affiliation
  • The parallel chart
  • pt. 4. Dividends of narrative medicine
  • Bearing witness
  • The bioethics of narrative medicine
  • A narrative vision for health care.

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