Narrative medicine : honoring the stories of illness / Rita Charon.

In this important and long-awaited book Rita Charon provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the conceptual principles underlying narrative medicine, as well as a practical guide for implementing narrative methods in health care. A true milestone in the field, it will interest general...

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Main Author: Charon, Rita
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Summary:In this important and long-awaited book Rita Charon provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the conceptual principles underlying narrative medicine, as well as a practical guide for implementing narrative methods in health care. A true milestone in the field, it will interest general readers, and experts in medicine and humanities, and literary theory.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.
ISBN:9780199759859
0199759855
1280840773
9781280840777
1429402768
9781429402767
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.