Rita Charon, MD, PhD, is a co-founder of the clinical practice known as narrative medicine...[and she] has written an academic book that seeks, successfully, to provide an intellectual foundation for her emerging field...Charon has written an erudite and courageous book.
Journal of the American Medical Association
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 recognise, 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 recognise 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 healthcare.
Trained in medicine and in literary studies, Rita Charon is a pioneer of and authority on the emerging field of narrative medicine. In this important and long-awaited book she provides a comprehensive and systemic 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, humanities and literary theory.
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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 readers and experts in medicine, humanities and literary theory.
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PART I WHAT IS NARRATIVE MEDICINE?; PART II NARRATIVES OF ILLNESS; PART III DEVELOPING NARRATIVE COMPETENCE; PART IV DIVIDENDS OF NARRATIVE MEDICINE
"Narrative Medicine is practical enough to be benefiical to the clinician, yet sufficiently theoretical to serve as a seminal text in the field. Even master clinicians can gain from the knowledge and skills presented here. Charon has written an inspired and inspiring book; and, in her stories of patients and studetns, she is a role model for us all."--Perspectives
"This is a great book...Well done."--Doody's, a 5 star review
"Rita Charon addresses such issues in her most-welcome book, Narrative Medicine: Honoring Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness, a "primer," as she calls it, for the emergent field of "narrative medicine" that she has helped define. The book combines theory-drawn from literary studies, philosophy, anthropology, psychotherapy- and rich narratives from her own patients' and students' lives. It is a compelling mix, backed by the unusual authority of
a physician who is also a literary scholar."--Perspectives
"A compelling mix, backed by the unusual authority of a physician who is also a literary scholar."--Lancet
"Narrative Medicine is practical enough to be benefiical to the clinician, yet sufficiently theoretical to serve as a seminal text in the field. Even master clinicians can gain from the knowledge and skills presented here. Charon has written an inspired and inspiring book; and, in her stories of patients and studetns, she is a role model for us all."--Perspectives
"A compelling mix, backed by the unusual authority of a physician who is also a literary scholar."--Lancet
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Selling point: The first book on the subject of narrative medicine
Selling point: Written by an authority and pioneer in the field
Selling point: Crosses disciplines of medicine and literary literary/narrative studies
Selling point: Charon's work on narrative medicine was featured in a New York Times Magazine feature article
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Selling point: The first book on the subject of narrative medicine
Selling point: Written by an authority and pioneer in the field
Selling point: Crosses disciplines of medicine and literary literary/narrative studies
Selling point: Charon's work on narrative medicine was featured in a New York Times Magazine feature article
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780195340228
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304
Forfatter