Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness Reviews

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2006-03-02
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195166752
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Narrative Medicine pdf
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Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beginnings, middles, and ends, and by establishing connections among things using metaphor and figural language, narrative medicine helps doctors to recognize patients and diseases, convey knowledge, accompany patients through the ordeals of illness--and according to Rita Charon, can ultimately lead to more humane, ethical, and effective health care.
Trained in medicine and in literary studies, Rita Charon is a pioneer of and authority on the emerging field of narrative medicine. In this impo Download Narrative Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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