Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness Hardcover – March 2, 2006 Author: Visit Amazon's Rita Charon Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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"The first portion of Narrative Medicine summarizes the intellectual underpinnings of the field that Charon has helped create, but it is in describing her own practice that her story becomes most compelling...Such emotionally compelling stories hook us and allow us to "know" patients in an apparently fully way than a sterile medical chart generally permits."--New England Journal of Medicine
"The optimistic centerpiece of this beautifully written and heartfelt book is the idea that the central function of doctoring is listening and that clinicians can improve the way they interact with patients if they think about narratives, literary and patient-derived, in new ways."--Annals of Internal Medicine
"The first portion of Narrative Medicine summarizes the intellectual underpinnings of the field that Charon has helped create, but it is in describing her own practice that her story becomes most compelling...Such emotionally compelling stories hook us and allow us to "know" patients in an apparently fully way than a sterile medical chart generally permits."--New England Journal of Medicine
"Perhaps the work of Charon and her colleaguesmay eventually change the way prospective doctors are taught to obtain patient histories, so that they focus less, for example, on the responses to a multiplicity of systems-review questions and more on eliciting patients'life stories."--JAMA
"The optimistic centerpiece of this beautifully written and heartfelt book is the idea that the central function of doctoring is listening and that clinicians can improve the way they interact with patients if they think about narratives, literary and patient-derived, in new ways."--Annals of Internal Medicine
"Charon is the driving force behind narrative medicine, and by all accounts she is a tireless advocate, knowledgeable and passionate about her cause... [The book's] ideal readers are doctors who are looking for an alternative to reductionist medical approaches, and who want a medicine that sees into people's souls, acknowledging their suffering and their strengths, with room for their spirituality. The book gives a reasonably detailed impression of a way of doing narrative medicine, and it has a good collection of stories of physicians and patients."--Metapsychology Online Review
About the Author
Rita Charon is at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Books with free ebook downloads available Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness Hardcover – March 2, 2006
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (March 2, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195166752
- ISBN-13: 978-0195166750
- Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,096,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
The first sentence of Dr. Rita Charon's book, at the start of the preface, begins as follows: "I invite readers to look with my colleagues and me at this form of clinical practice we have come to call narrative medicine, defined as medicine practiced with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness."
In addition to being a physician, the author holds a PhD degree in English.
Dr. Charon points out that medicine becomes transformed when it is practiced with a real respect for time and timeliness, that patients lament when their uniqueness is not valued, that a clinician should not stop with the obvious or evident story line but should keep looking, in a creative way, to construct a wide and deep diagnosis, open to various possibilities, and that medicine is "based on complex texts which are shaped between doctor and patient, texts that encompass words, silences, physical findings, pictures, measurements of substances in the body, and appearances."
Further quoting Dr. Charon, "Medicine is itself a more narratively inflected enterprise than it realizes. Its practice is suffused with attention to life's temporal horizons, with the commitment to describe the singular, with the urge to uncover plot...., and with an awareness of the intersubjective and ethical nature of healing."
These aspects of temporality, singularity, causality/contingency, intersubjectivity (two people relating to each other) and ethical concern are the hallmarks of storytelling or narrative. The use of the term "intersubjectivity" emphasizes that "it is in meeting with other selves that the self comes alive."
To help the reader develop competence in handling narrative, the practical centerpiece of the book is Dr.
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