1st Edition

Narrative in Health Care Healing Patients, Practitioners, Profession, and Community

272 Pages
by CRC Press

272 Pages
by CRC Press

Narrative medicine has developed an identity already. Clinicians of many disciplines are being summoned to a practice that recognizes patients by receiving their accounts of self. Starting from different positions, the four authors have converged in a strong and shared commitment to narrative health care. They conceptualize narrative health care practices within frameworks derived from the social... Read more
Part 1: Historical context, genealogy, and current viewpoints. Medicine, medical practice, and knowledge. Transdisciplinary narrative turns and narrative health care. The patient-practitioner relationship. Part 2: Professional performance situations and narrative importance. Narrative contexts of care. Narrative contexts of profession and community. Interlude: the death of Ivan Ilyich. Part 3: Narrative competence and its outcomes. Skills for the practice of narrative medicine. Evidence of narrative success and risks of non-narrative practice. Part 4: Personal perspectives on narrative in health care. Conversations with practitioners.

Biography

John D Engel, Joseph Zarconi, Lura Pethtel, Sally Missimi