Medicine through the novel: Lying Awake
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Medicine through the novel: Lying Awake.
Narrative fiction can engage readers in generating imaginative recreations of the inner worlds of doctors and patients, which are largely inaccessible through typical clinical case analysis. Fiction about medicine can yield insight into patients' subjective experience of illness and can highlight the need for an empathetic response from doctors to patients affected by illness. Mark Salzman's no...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Humanities
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1468-215X,1473-4265
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2004.000186