1st Edition
Narrative Medicine A Guidebook to Transforming Hearts and Minds
Introduction
Julia Michie Bruckner, Anjali Dhurandhar, Eve Makoff
2. Implementing Workshops
Julia Michie Bruckner, Anjali Dhurandhar, Eve Makoff
3. Birth
Andrea Eisenberg, Reina Patel
4. Growth
Emily Greenstein, Claire Unis
5. Identity
Selina Chen, Faiza Khan, Rachel Kowalsky
6. Uncertainty
Michelle Burack, Danielle Chammas
7. Isolation
Andrea Eisenberg, Sarah Wingerter
8. Justice
Eve Makoff, Loucresie Rupert
9. Empathy
Rohini Harvey, Rachel Kowalsky
10. Trust
Julia Michie Bruckner
11. Illness
Rohini Harvey, Rebecca Horn, Sneha Mantri
12. Healing
Sierra Matula, Mariah Stump
13. Trauma
Elizabeth Mitchell, Sarah Wingerter
14. Hope
Rachel Fleishman, Claire Unis
15. Pain
Poonam Bhatia, Andrea Eisenberg
16. Joy
Sindhu Idicula, Mariah Stump
17. Loss and Grief
Sierra Matula, Elizabeth Mitchell
Information Classification: General
18. Courage
Rohini Harvey, Rebecca Horn
19. Shame
Eve Makoff
20. Self-Compassion
Carolyn Roy-Borenstein
21. Connection
Julia Michie Bruckner
22. Aging
Sneha Mantri
23. Gratitude
Rebecca Horn
24. End of Life
Sarah Michelman Lo, Sarah Smith
25. Transcendence
Anjali Dhurandhar
26. Conclusion
Julia Michie Bruckner, Anjali Dhurandhar, Eve Makoff
Biography
Julia Michie Bruckner is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with interests in medical humanities and narrative medicine. She serves as an attending pediatrician and Director of Faculty Wellbeing for the Section of Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She has published creative nonfiction essays in JAMA, Academic Medicine, Academic Pediatrics, Narratively, KevinMD and Doximity. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the Bellevue Literary Review Felice Buckvar Prize in Nonfiction.
Anjali Dhurandhar is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine and serves as Associate Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. She is a general internist who has a focus on chronic pain. She has conducted writing workshops for the past 25 years and has edited numerous works.
Eve Makoff is regional medical officer at MyPlace Health, a program for low-income, chronically Ill, elderly patients. Her recent publications and research in narrative medicine appear in Narrative and Palliative Medicine Reports. Her creative writing has appeared in JPM, JPSM, CMAJ, PULSE, J Emergency Med, J Clinical Bioethics, The Perfect Doctor, and OnlySky. She facilitates narrative medicine workshops.
