Research Catalog

Title

Narrative based medicine : dialogue and discourse in clinical practice / edited by Trisha Greenhalgh, Brian Hurwitz.

Publication

London : BMJ Books, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hurwitz, Brian
• Greenhalgh, Trisha

Description

xvi, 286 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

The central theme of this book is the narrative nature of illness and the consequent need for interpretation as well as investigation of the patient's problems. Chapters include: the nature of illness experience in primary care; the role of narrative in psychotherapy; the narrative stream in medical ethics and medical negligence; the role of literature in the teaching of medicine and nursing; narrative in cross-cultural health; and technical aspects of analysing transcripts of the consultations. Contributions from patients and their carers, in which they describe their experiences of illness, healing, coping and dying, and personal stories from doctors and nurses in different fields of health care are also included.

Subject

• Patients > psychology
• Medical History Taking
• Interviews as Topic
• Communication
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Communication in medicine
• Medical personnel and patient
• Narration (Rhetoric) > Therapeutic use
• Professional-Patient Relations
• Philosophy, Medical
• Medicine in Literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Why study narrative? / Trisha Greenhalgh and Brian Hurwitz -- 2. The words we live in / Anna Donald -- Illness Stories -- 3. The median isn't the message / Stephen Jay Gould -- 4. The night my life changed / Robert McCrum -- 5. The good bleed guide / Donald Bateman -- 6. Stories of dying: therapeutic writing in hospice care / Gillie Bolton -- 7. Narratives of childhood epilepsy: have I got epilepsy or has it got me? / Henrietta Weinbren and Paramjit Gill -- The conker tree / Trisha Greenhalgh -- Narrative in Medicine -- 8. Pain narratives / Richard Bayliss -- 9. Following the story: continuity of care in general practice / Iona Heath -- 10. Narrative and mental health in primary care / John Launer -- 11. Sirens, stray dogs, and the narrative of Hilda Thomson / Marshall Marinker -- 12. Narrative in surgery / James Owen Drife -- Dear Tom / Trisha Greenhalgh -- Learning and Teaching Narrative -- 13. Literature in medicine / Stephen Rachman --
• 14. Teaching humanities in the undergraduate medical curriculum / Harriet A. Squier -- 15. The golden narrative in British medicine / Stuart Hogarth and Lara Marks -- 16. Nursing, narrative, and the moral imagination / P. Anne Scott -- Dead notes / Brian Hurwitz -- Understanding Narrative in Health Care -- 17. Stories we hear and stories we tell...analysing talk in clinical practice / Glyn Elwyn and Richard Gwyn -- 18. Narrative in psychotherapy / Jeremy Holmes -- 19. The electronic medical record and the "story stuff": a narrativistic model / Steve Kay and Ian Purves -- 20. Anecdote in clinical practice / Jane Macnaughton -- The Database of Individual Patient Experience / Trisha Greenhalgh -- Broader Perspectives on Narrative in Health Care -- 21.
• Narrative in medical ethics / Anne Hudson Jones -- 22. Anthropology and narrative / Vieda Skultans -- 23. The wounded storyteller: narrative strands in medical negligence / Brian Hurwitz -- 24. Narrative based medicine in an evidence based world / Trisha Greenhalgh -- 25. Organ music / Ruth Richardson -- App.: Some recommended reading / Trisha Greenhalgh and Brian Hurwitz.

ISBN

0727912232

OCLC

• 42726586
• SCSB-12707683

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library