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Narrative medicine : honoring the stories of illness

Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of patients. Charon argues that by making genuine contact with patients through storytelling, narrative medicine leads to more humane, ethical, and effective health care
Print Book, English, [2008]
Oxford University Press, New York, [2008]
XVI, 266 p. ; 24 cm
9780195340228, 0195340221
1050276204
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