Narrative Matters
Subtitle: Writing to Change the Health Care System
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781421437545
Subjects: Public health
Description: "This second edition features a new collection of thirty-two essays previously published in the Narrative Matters section of the journal Health Affairs in recent years. As in the first edition, the essays are divided into topical areas such as the doctor-patient relationship, health care delivery and reform, care for aging patients, and the opioid crisis. The book could be adopted for courses on medical humanities or narrative medicine. The essays are written by some of the leading popular writers in health care today"--