Narrative Based Medicine

Edited by two leading general practitioners and with contributions from over 20 authors, this book covers a wide range of topics to do with narrative in medicine. It includes a wealth of real examples of patients narratives and addresses theoretical and practical issues including the use of narrative as a therapeutic tool, teaching narrative to students, philosophical issues, narrative in legal and ethical decisions, narrative in nursing, and the narrative medical record.

Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care and Director, Healthcare Innovation and Policy Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.

Introduction
Why study narrative?
Turtles all the way down Illness stories
Themedian isn't the message
The night my life changed
The good bleed guide
Stories of dying
Have i got epilepsy or has it got me? Filler: the conker tree Narrative in medicine
Pain narratives
Following hte story: continuity of care in general practice
Narrative and mental health
Sirens, stray dogs and the narrative of hilda thomson
The surgeon's narrative Filler: pressuring mrs thomas to accept her treatment Learning and teaching narrative
Literature in medicine
Teaching humanities in the undergraduate medical curriculum
The golden narrative in british medicine
Nursing, narrative and the moral imagination Filler: Upwardly mobile Understanding narrative in health care
Stories that we hear and stories we tell
Narrative in psychotherapy
The narrative in medical record
Anecdote in clinical practice Filler: Dead notes Broader perspectives on narrative in health care
Narrative in medical ethics
Cross cultural medical narratives: some case studies from latvia and siberia
The narrative stream in medical negligence
Narrative based medicine in an evidence based world Filler: Dear tom
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Narrative Based Medicine

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