Narrative in Health Care - Healing Patients, Practitioners, Profession, and Community (Paperback, 1 New Ed)

Narrative medicine has developed an identity already. Clinicians of many disciplines are being summoned to a practice that recognizes patients by receiving their accounts of self. Starting from different positions, the four authors have converged in a strong and shared commitment to narrative health care. They conceptualize narrative health care practices within frameworks derived from the social sciences and psychology, and, to a lesser degree, phenomenology and autobiographical theory. They relate the development of narrative medicine to relationship-centered care, patient-centered care, and complex responsive process of relating theory, positing that narrative medicine can help clinicians to develop the skills required to practice relationship-centered care. The book details - with exercises, resource texts, and abundant scholarly apparatus - how these skills can be developed and strengthened. This work will change health care. Because of its scholarly rigor, its multi-voiced sources, and its highly practical features (lists, activities, key ideas and key references, primary texts written by health care professionals and patients), this work will be a guide in the field for those who practice medicine or nursing or social work. The book establishes that there is a field to be practised, a need to practise it, and a means to develop the wherewithal to do so.

General

Imprint:	Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	John D Engel • Joseph Zarconi • Lura Pethtel • Sally Missimi
Dimensions:	170 x 245 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
Edition:	1 New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-84619-193-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General
LSN:	1-84619-193-9
Barcode:	9781846191930

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