The chief concern of medicine
Subtitle: the integration of the medical humanities and narrative knowledge into medical practices
By: Ronald Schleifer and Jerry B. Vannatta with Sheila Crow and a contribution by Seth Vannatta
Contributors: Vannatta, Jerry; Crow, Sheila
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780472118595; 9780472028863
Subjects: Medical Ethics; Physician-Patient Relations; Medical History Taking; Narration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-428) and index.
Table of contents: title: The functional realism of medicine; title: Modalities of science : narrative, phronesis, and the skills of medicine; title: The chief concern of medicine : narrative knowledge and schema-based practice; title: The logic of diagnosis : peirce, literary narrative, and the history of present illness; title: The patient-physician relationship : the scene of narration; title: The patient's story : the apprehension of narration; title: Doctors listening and attending to patients : response and engagement with acts of narration; title: Narrative and medicine : schemas of narration; title: Narrative and everyday medical ethics : schemas of action; title: Reading the death of Ivan Ilych.