Title: The chief concern of medicine : the integration of the medical humanities and narrative knowledge into medical practices /
Authors: Schleifer, Ronald.; Vannatta, Jerry.; Crow, Sheila.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Medicine in literature.; Medicine and the humanities.; Physician and patient; Narration; Physician-Patient Relations; Ethics, Medical; Medical History Taking
Contents: The functional realism of medicine -- Modalities of science : narrative, phronesis, and the skills of medicine -- The chief concern of medicine : narrative knowledge and schema-based practice -- The logic of diagnosis : peirce, literary narrative, and the history of present illness -- The patient-physician relationship : the scene of narration -- The patient's story : the apprehension of narration -- Doctors listening and attending to patients : response and engagement with acts of narration -- Narrative and medicine : schemas of narration -- Narrative and everyday medical ethics : schemas of action -- Reading the death of Ivan Ilych.