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

Synopsis

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 sciences and psychology, and, to a lesser degree, phenomenology and autobiographical theory. They relate the development of narrative medicine to relationship-centered care, patient-centered care, and complex responsive process of relating theory, positing that narrative medicine can help clinicians to develop the skills required to practice relationship-centered care. The book details - with exercises, resource texts, and abundant scholarly apparatus - how these skills can be developed and strengthened. This work will change health care. Because of its scholarly rigor, its multi-voiced sources, and its highly practical features (lists, activities, key ideas and key references, primary texts written by health care professionals and patients), this work will be a guide in the field for those who practice medicine or nursing or social work. The book establishes that there is a field to be practised, a need to practise it, and a means to develop the wherewithal to do so.

Copyright:

2008

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781315347080

Related ISBNs:

9781315383095, 9781846191930, 9781846191930, 9781138444812, 9781138444812

Publisher:

CRC Press

Date of Addition:

04/04/20

Copyrighted By:

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

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Medicine

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Bookshare Staff

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