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The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine by Rita Charon; Sayantani DasGupta; Nellie Hermann; Craig Irvine; Eric R. Marcus; Edgar Rivera Colsn; Danielle Spencer; Maura Spiegel is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, narrative medicine draws patients, doctors, nurses, therapists, and health activists together to re-imagine a health care based on trust and trustworthiness, humility, and mutual recognition. Over a decade of education and research has crystallized the goals and methods of narrative medicine, leading to increasingly powerful means to improve the care that patients receive. The methods described in this book harness creativity and insight to help the professionals in being with patients, not just to diagnose and treat them but to bear witness to what they undergo. Narrative medicine training in literary theory, philosophy, narrative ethics, and the creative arts increases clinicians' capacity to perceive the turmoil and suffering borne by patients and to help them to cohere or endure the chao

Author

Rita Charon; Sayantani DasGupta; Nellie Hermann; Craig Irvine; Eric R. Marcus; Edgar Rivera Colsn; Danielle Spencer; Maura Spiegel

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199360192

Subjects

Medical, Medicine