Table of Contents

I: What is Narrative Medicine
1: The Sources of Narrative Medicine
2: Bridging Health Care's Divides
3: Narrative Features of Medicine
II: Narratives of Illness
4: Telling One's Life
5: The Patient, the Body, and the Self
III: Developing Narrative Competence
6: Close Reading
7: Attention, Representation, and Affiliation
8: The Parallel Chart
IV: Dividends of Narrative Medicine
9: Bearing Witness
10: The Bioethics of Narrative Medicine
11: A Narrative Vision for Health Care
References
Index

Reviews

It is a compelling mix, backed by the unusual authority of a physician who is also a literary scholar. ... Narrartive Medicine is practical enough to be beneficial to the clinician, yet sufficiently theoretical to serve as a seminal text in the field. Even master clinicians can gain from the knowledge and skills presented here. Charon has written an inspired and inspiring book; and, in her stories of patients and students, she is a role model for us all. The Lancet, Vol 370,