Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness

Abstract

I: WHAT IS NARRATIVE MEDICINE 1. The source of Narrative Medicine 2. Bridging Health Care's Divides 3. Narrative Features of Medicine II: NARRATIVES OF ILLNESS 4. Telling One's Life 5. The Patient, the Body, and the Self II: DEVELOPING NARRATIVE COMPETENCE 6. Close Reading 7. Attention, Represenation, and Affiliation 8. The Parallel Chart III: DIVIDENDS OF NARRATIVE MEDICINE 9. Bearing Witness 10. The Bioethics of Narrative Medicine 11. A Narrative Vision for Health Care