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- Title
Narrative Medicine: Attention, Representation, Affiliation.
- Authors
Charon, Rita
- Abstract
Sick persons and those who care for them become obligatory story-tellers and story-listeners. Hippocrates knew this, Chekhov knew this, Freud knew this, and yet knowledge of the centrality of storytelling was obscured in medicine throughout much of the last century. With the rise of interest in the humanities in general and literary studies in particular among medical educators and practitioners, today's medicine is being fortified by a rigorous understanding of narrative theory, appreciation of narrative practice, and deepening respect for what great literary texts can contribute to the professional development of physicians and the care of the individual patient This rise of the power of storytelling in medicine helps me to conceptualize what has been evolving in my own practice of internal medicine and in the emerging field of narrative medicine.
- Subjects
NARRATIVE therapy; THERAPEUTICS; LITERATURE &; medicine; PHYSICIANS; CLINICAL medicine; MEDICINE
- Publication
Narrative, 2005, Vol 13, Issue 3, p261
- ISSN
1063-3685
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/nar.2005.0017