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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Table of Contents:
  • The Sources of Narrative Medicine
  • Bridging Health Care's Divides
  • Narrative Features of Medicine
  • Telling One's Life
  • The Patient, the Body, and the Self
  • Close Reading
  • Attention, Representation, and Affiliation
  • The Parallel Chart
  • Bearing Witness
  • The Bioethics of Narrative Medicine
  • A Narrative Vision for Health Care.