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Narrative research in health and illness

A key text that demonstrates the breadth of narrative medicine and its growing importance in patient care. Contributions are from leading teachers in North America and Europe at the interfacce between the humanities, social sciences and health care.

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience Online service
Group Author: Hurwitz, Brian; Greenhalgh, Trisha; Skultans, Vieda
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Physician and patient
Narration Rhetoric
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Medicine > Research > Methodology
Narration
Physician-Patient Relations
Communication
Medical History Taking
Patients > psychology
Relations médecin-patient
Discours narratif
Médecine > Recherche > Méthodologie
MEDICAL > Physician & Patient
Electronic books
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470755167
Summary: A key text that demonstrates the breadth of narrative medicine and its growing importance in patient care. Contributions are from leading teachers in North America and Europe at the interfacce between the humanities, social sciences and health care.
Carrier Form: ix, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780470755167
0470755164
1405146192
9781405146197
Index Number: R727
CLC: R192
Contents: The ethicality of narrative medicine / Rita Charon -- Soldiers become casualties : doctors' accounts of the SARS epidemic / Eugene Wu [and others] -- Poems from the heart : living with heart failure / Marilyn Kendall, Scott Murray -- Performance narratives in the clinical world / Cheryl Mattingly -- "I cut because it helps" : narratives of self-injury in teenage girls / Petra M. Boynton, Annabelle Auerbach -- The DIPEx project : collecting personal experiences of illness and health care / Andrew Herxheimer, Sue Ziebland -- Narratives of spirituality and religion in end-of-life care / Arthur
Narratives of compound loss : parents' stories from the organ retention -- Scandal / Ruth Richardson -- The power of stories over statistics : lessons from neonatal jaundice and infant airplane safety / Thomas B. Newman -- Narratives of health inequality : interpreting the determinants of health / Gareth Williams -- Narratives of displacement and identity / Vieda Skultans -- A thrice-told tale : new readings of an old story / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- The role of stories and storytelling in organisational change efforts : a field study of emerging "community of practice" within the UK nat

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