Edizione italiana a cura di Micaela Castiglioni Come integrare le storie dei pazienti nella pratica clinica? Come arricchire le evidenze e l’oggettività della scienza medica con il vissuto e le emozioni individuali? In un saggio che è ormai un classico, Rita Charon risponde a queste domande mettendo la narrazione al servizio della medicina, per farci scoprire il potere del racconto nelle relazioni terapeutiche. Attraverso la lettura e la scrittura, infatti, si possono sviluppare quelle cap...

A cura di Christian Delorenzo Come rendere centrale la storia del paziente nel processo terapeutico? Quali sono i rapporti tra medicina narrativa e psicoanalisi? In che modo le narrazioni da leggere, da scrivere e da condividere contribuiscono non solo alla formazione degli studenti e dei professionisti sanitari ma anche alla pratica clinica e a una sanità più equa? Sono alcune tra le domande a cui dà risposta Rita Charon, che si occupa di questi temi da ormai quarant’anni ed è la personal...

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 beg...

Combining first-person narration, scholarly reflections, and advocacy, this volume features conversations with physician-scholars Rita Charon and Jonathan M. Metzl and provides a holistic view of the human interactions and structural forces that define healthcare today. The contributors afford us opportunities to reconsider health through a poetic and political lense and help us envision a more socially informed and just practice of medicine.

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, narrative medicine draws patients, doctors, nurses, therapists, and health activists toge...

La medicina narrativa ha surgido como respuesta a un sistema sanitario mercantilizado que antepone las preocupaciones corporativas y burocráticas a las necesidades del paciente. Generada a partir de una confluencia de fuentes que incluyen las humanidades y la medicina, la medicina de atención primaria, la narratología y el estudio de las relaciones médico-paciente, la medicina narrativa es una medicina practicada con la competencia de reconocer, absorber, interpretar y conmoverse por las h...

Virginia Woolf's daring essay on how illness transforms our perception, plus an essay by Woolf's mother from the caregiver's perspective: "Revelatory." — BooklistThis new publication of "On Being Ill" with "Notes from Sick Rooms" presents Virginia Woolf and her mother, Julia Stephen, in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant and humorous essay "On Being Ill," Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human be...

A moving look at the challenges and triumphs of caregiving, told through candid literary accounts by more than 60 doctors, nurses, and other healersWhere It Hurts invites us to peer into the space between health and illness, life and death, through the voices of the people who work on medicine’s frontlines: doctors, nurses, EMTs, therapists, and more. In raw and revealing essays, stories, and poems, they share what it’s like to deal with difficult patients...

Candid literary accounts by doctors, nurses, and other healers shed light on the intense challenges and triumphs of medical life, reflecting the resilience, ingenuity, and compassion they use to get by.In Where It Hurts, more than 60 doctors, nurses, therapists, EMTs, patient advocates, and other medical professionals offer a window into the space between health and illness, life and death as they share stories of difficult patients, life-changing diagnose...

Narrative in Social Work Practice features first-person accounts by social workers who have successfully integrated narrative theory and approaches into their practice. Contributors describe innovative and effective interventions with a wide range of individuals, families, and groups facing a variety of life challenges. One author describes a family in crisis when a promising teenage girl suddenly takes to her bed for several years; another brings narrative practice to a Bronx tra...

Narrative in Social Work Practice features first-person accounts by social workers who have successfully integrated narrative theory and approaches into their practice. Contributors describe innovative and effective interventions with a wide range of individuals, families, and groups facing a variety of life challenges. One author describes a family in crisis when a promising teenage girl suddenly takes to her bed for several years; another brings narrative practice to a Bronx tra...

First published in 2002. The doctor patient relationship starts with a story. Doctors' notes, a patient's chart, the recommendations of ethics committees and insurance justifications all hinge on written and verbal narrative interaction. The practice of narrative profoundly affects decision making, patient health and treatment and the everyday practice of medicine. In this edited collection, the contributors provide conceptual foundations, practical guidelines and theoretical consideration...