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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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Main Author: Charon, Rita
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Narrative medicine.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration.
Professional-Patient Relations.
Communication.
Medicine.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
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Summary: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 readers, and experts in medicine and humanities, and literary theory.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Description based on opening page (viewed Nov 19, 2020).
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199759859
0199759855