Narrative Medicine by Rita Charon (Other)Call Number: W 62 C483n 2006
ISBN: 9780195340228
Publication Date: 2008-01-29
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