BIBLIOGRAFIA INTERNAZIONALE
Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
Rita Charon, Oxford University Press, 2006
Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beginnings, middles, and ends, and by establishing connections among things using metaphor and figural language, narrative medicine helps doctors to recognize patients and diseases, convey knowledge, accompany patients through the ordeals of illness–and according to Rita Charon, can ultimately lead to more humane, ethical, and effective health care.
Narrative based medicine
Greenhalgh Trisha, Hurwitz Brian, BMJ Books, 1998
Edited by two leading general practitioners and with contributions from over 20 authors, this book covers a wide range of topics to do with narrative in medicine. It includes a wealth of real examples of patients narratives and addresses theoretical and practical issues including the use of narrative as a therapeutic tool, teaching narrative to students, philosophical issues, narrative in legal and ethical decisions, narrative in nursing, and the narrative medical record.
Narrative based primary care: a practical guide
John Launer, Radcliffe, Oxford, 2002
Launer invites readers to structure their clinical conversations making use of the idea that knowledge occurs through the stories—the narratives—that we tell others and ourselves about our experiences.
Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England
Davide Houston, Wood Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity, 2013
Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Wood examines the ways that depictions of time expressed in early modern medical texts reveal themselves in contemporary literary works, demonstrating that the early modern recognition of the self as a palpably volatile entity facilitated the realistic portrayal of literary characters and served as a structuring principle for narrative experimentation.