Research Catalog

Title

Narrative medicine : bridging the gap between evidence-based care and medical humanities / Maria Giulia Marini.

Author

Marini, Maria Giulia

Publication

• Cham : Springer, [2016]
• ©2016

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Description

xvii, 150 pages : portrait; 25 cm

Summary

This book examines all aspects of narrative medicine and its value in ensuring that, in an age of evidence-based medicine defined by clinical trials, numbers, and probabilities, clinical science is firmly embedded in the medical humanities in order to foster the understanding of clinical cases and the delivery of excellent patient care. The medical humanities address what happens to us when we are affected by a disease and narrative medicine is an interdisciplinary approach that emphasizes the importance of patient narratives in bridging various divides, including those between health care professionals and patients. The book covers the genesis of the medical humanities and of narrative medicine and explores all aspects of their role in improving healthcare. It describes how narrative medicine is therapeutic for the patient, enhances the patient{u2013}doctor relationship, and allows the identification, via patients' stories, of the feelings and experiences that are characteristic for each disease. Furthermore, it explains how to use narrative medicine as a real scientific tool. Narrative Medicine will be of value for all caregivers: physicians, nurses, healthcare managers, psychotherapists, counselors, and social workers. ?Maria Giulia Marini takes a unique and innovative approach to narrative medicine. She sees it as offering a bridge {u2013} indeed a variety of different bridges {u2013} between clinical care and {u2018}humanitas{u2019}. With a sensitive use of mythology, literature and metaphor on the one hand, and scientific studies on the other, she shows how the guiding concept of narrative might bring together the fragmented parts of the medical enterprise?. John Launer, Honorary Consultant, Tavistock Clinic, London UK.

Subject

• Narrative medicine
• Narration (Rhetoric) > Therapeutic use
• Narration
• Attitude of Health Personnel
• Patient-Centered Care
• Professional-Patient Relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Evidence-based medicine and narrative medicine: a harmonic couple -- Bridging from mythology to contemporary care: the art of listening -- Bridging from oral tradition to writing: the art of empathy -- The Tower of Babel: the language of physicians, patients, and providers of care -- Patient's narrative as a probe for successful coping -- The muted desire for well-being and the abuse of the word "normality" in medicine -- Bridging the gap between personalization of care and research -- The place of illness-centred movies in medical humanities -- Designing health care based on patient's needs and rights -- Building a bridge between economic investment and medical humanities: the fears to overcome -- A selection of narratives -- Glossary: a tool to bridge the gap between medical humanities, medical science, health-care organization, and health-care economics.

ISBN

• 9783319220895
• 3319220896
• 9783319220901 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• ^^2015949219
• 9783319220895

OCLC

• 926672894
• SCSB-12372877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library