Literature and Medicine: A Practical and Pedagogical Guide is designed to introduce narrative medicine in medical humanities courses aimed at pre-medicine undergraduates and medical and healthcare students. With excerpts from short stories, novels, memoirs, and poems, the book guides students on the basic methods and concepts of the study of narrative. The book helps healthcare professionals to build a set of skills and knowledge central to the practice of medicine including an understanding of professionalism, building the patient-physician relationship, ethics of medical practice, the logic of diagnosis, recognizing mistakes in medical practice, and diversity of experience. In addition to analyzing and considering the literary texts, each chapter includes a vignette taken from clinical situations to help define and illustrate the chapter’s theme. Literature and Medicine illustrates the ways that engagement with the humanities in general, and literature in particular, can create better and more fulfilled physicians and caretakers.
Author(s): Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
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Pages: 311
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxviii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Narrative and Cognitive Science; Literature and Medicine (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 3-30
Front Matter ....Pages 31-31
The Narrative Structure of Diagnosis (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 33-49
Front Matter ....Pages 51-51
Literature and Professionalism in Medicine (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 53-65
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Rapport and Empathy in Medicine (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 69-80
Listening to Patients (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 81-90
The Patient (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 91-108
The Doctor (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 109-120
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Everyday Ethics of Medical Practices (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 123-135
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Culture (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 139-146
Sexual and Domestic Abuse (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 147-158
Pain (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 159-169
Ageing (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 171-179
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Mistakes in Medicine (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 183-195
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Death and Dying (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 199-236
Front Matter ....Pages 237-237
Afterword (Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta)....Pages 239-241
Back Matter ....Pages 243-297
