Narrative matters : the power of the personal essay in health policy /
Mullan, Fitzhugh.
Ficklen, Ellen.
Rubin, Kyna.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2006.
"A Health affairs reader"--P. [2].
Anthology of essays published in the Narrative matters section of Health affairs journal.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Writing to change things: essays on the policy narrative -- Dollars and sense: hard financial realities -- Bearing witness: patients' stories -- The maddening system: frustrations and solutions -- Trouble in the ranks: professional problems -- Drug resistance: battling undue influence -- Disparity dilemmas: stories on race and ethnicity -- Values and choice: stories of practical ethics.
Medical policy.
Narrative medicine.