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The Chief Concern of Medicine: The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices
The Chief Concern of Medicine The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices Author:Ronald Schleifer, Jerry Vannatta Unlike any existing studies of the medical humanities, The Chief Concern of Medicine brings to the examination of medical practices a thorough---and clearly articulated---exposition of the nature of narrative. The book builds on the work of linguistics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory and examines numerous literary works and narrati... more »ve "vignettes" of medical problems, situations, and encounters. Throughout, the book presents usable expositions of the ways storytelling organizes itself to allow physicians and other healthcare workers (and even patients themselves) to be more attentive to and self-conscious about the information---the "narrative knowledge"---of the patient's story.« less