Narrative based medicine: dialogue and discourse in clinical practice.

Metaphor and medicine: narrative in clinical practice.

For decades it seems that the art has been slipping away from medicine. Like the ancient Greeks, who lamented the passing of the Golden Age, contemporary physicians, educators, the general public, and especially the sick mourn the loss of the human dimension of medical practice. Fragmentation, subspecialization, lack of continuity, technological demands, burgeoning patient volume, institutional...

Narrative-based medicine: potential, pitfalls, and practice.

Introduction Narratives have always been a vital part of medicine. Stories about patients, the experience of caring for them, and their recovery from illness have always been shared—among physicians as well as among patients and their relatives. With the evolution of “modern” medicine, narratives were increasingly neglected in favor of “facts and findings,” which were regarded as more scientifi...

Humanity before Science: Narrative Medicine, Clinical Practice, and Medical Education.

Narrative based medicine: stories we hear and stories we tell: analysing talk in clinical practice.

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Narrative based medicine: narrative in medical ethics.

References The contributions of narrative to medical ethics come primarily in two ways: firstly, from the use of stories (narratives) for their mimetic content—that is, for what they say; and secondly, from the methods of literary criticism and narrative theory for their analysis of diegetic form—that is, for their understanding of how stories are told and why it matters. Although narrative and...