Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness

by Rita Charon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195340221
• ISBN13: 9780195340228
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"