Narrative in Health Care: Healing Patients, Practitioners, Profession, and Community

by John D. Engel, Lura L. Pethtel, Joseph Zarconi, et al.

Narrative medicine has developed an identity already. Clinicians of many disciplines are being summoned to a practice that recognizes patients by receiving their accounts of self. Starting from different positions, the four authors have converged in a strong and shared commitment to narrative health care. They conceptualize narrative health care practices within frameworks derived from the social sciences and psychology, and, to a lesser degree, phenomenology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846191939
• ISBN13: 9781846191930
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.6"