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Author Schleifer, Ronald.

Title The chief concern of medicine [electronic resource] : the integration of the medical humanities and narrative knowledge into medical practices / Ronald Schleifer and Jerry B. Vannatta ; with Sheila Crow and a contribution by Seth Vannatta.

Imprint Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvi, 456 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Narrative medicine.
Physician and patient.
Medical ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Vannatta, Jerry.
Crow, Sheila.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780472118595 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472028863 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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