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The Covid pandemic has led us into an upheaval that has made us
question the certainties underlying what it means to be a human
being in our age; the ability to control medical and social facts
through evidence. For the first-time western and developed
countries have had to confront what many populations from the
developing world (Africa. Latin America, etc) face on a daily basis
with HIV and Ebola, etc. The Interconnectedness of Globalization
has been the real disseminating catalyst of COVID 19, and many
scientists wonder if this virus is the result of the Anthropocene
age, with its indisputable lack of respect for the natural
ecosystems. The virus has demonstrated that our frailty is
only skin deep, and it has not only brought death, despair, but it
has broken our interdependency as human beings, by imposing self-
isolation as well as creating new ways of connections so that
safety cannot imply loneliness. In this book, the coping strategies
that originate from the multiple languages of care such as
narrative, literature, science, philosophy, art, digital science
are shown not only as reflective tools to promote health but also
wellbeing amongst carers, patients, students, and citizens of our
planet Earth. These strategies should be supported by the decision
makers since they are low-cost investments necessary to make the
health care system work. They however require a change of cultural
paradigm. This book is a useful toolkit for patients, citizens and
care services physicians who want to learn more on how to live
better with this new world. Â
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-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 - indeed a variety of different bridges - between
clinical care and 'humanitas'. 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
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