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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"narrative medicine"”.
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Literature and Medicine and Narrative Medicine: A Distinction between Terms
The terms literature and medicine and narrative medicine are often used interchangeably to describe story-based study in medicine and medical education. In this dissertation, I explore distinctions between literature and medicine and narrative medicine and assert that a conflation of these terms is …
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NARRATIVE MEDICINE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICAL INTERVIEWING APPROACHES IN WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER
… Traditional biomedical interviewing, narrative medicine approaches, and emerging types of dialogue were coded within these encounters. Observations of patient-provider interactions, structured and semi-structured patient interviews, and document analysis enriched this investigation. No …
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Lucid, Likable, and Hopefully Sane: The Narrative Medicine of Socio-Psychiatric Recovery
<p>Lucid, Likable, and Hopefully Sane: The Narrative Medicine of Socio-Psychiatric Recovery provides a detailed document of the author’s recovery from psychotic mental illness. This collection includes a curated selection of vignettes ranging from humorous to surrealist to downright grim. The …
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Exploring the Effect of Narrative Medicine on Burnout and Compassion Satisfaction Among EM Physicians
Background: Burnout among emergency medicine (EM) physicians continues to rise, exacerbated by structural inefficiencies, shift work, and high emotional demands. While interventions addressing physician well-being are proliferating, many lack evidence or fail to address the relational and narrative …
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Negative Capability as an Ethic of Empathy: Practicing Narrative Medicine with John Keats in Mind
… explicates the similarities between elements of narrative medicine theory and John Keats’s quality of negative capability and explores the ways in which an understanding of negative capability can inform narrative medicine practices and guide narrative medicine beyond its present theory. I argue …
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Exploring the Impact of Digital Storytelling for Health
… method of collecting contextual data, with narrative medicine and the emergence of health humanities bolstering the role and importance of this method (Lang et al., 2019). Currently within health care, we rely heavily upon statistics and metrics to report whether we are performing well, for …
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A Change of Heart: Internal Narratives, Forgiveness & Health
… the interconnectedness of forgiveness as a narrative, as a philosophical, religious and cultural phenomenon, and the ways in which forgiveness is increasingly being used as a vehicle for improving health and psychological well-being. By threading together how scholars in a variety of fields …
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The Ethical Imperative of Narrative Care: The Necessity of Applying Narrative Skills to Clinical & Bioethical Practice
Medicine and bioethics today are though as fields of pure logic, reasoning, and science, with physicians and ethicists trained to approach patients with an attitude of detatched rationality. In reality, neither medical care nor ethics can be practiced well without an acknowledgement for their …
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Patient-Provider Encounter: The Contemporary Cameroonian Story
… between providers and patients incorporate narrative and dialogue? How do providers and patients perceive the quality and ethics of health related interactions? I used participant observation and field interviews in urban and rural areas in Cameroon as the context for my collection of data. …
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The Nurse’s Story: A Qualitative Study Of How Nurses Experience Caring For Patients Who Die Unexpectedly
<p>The primary purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the experience of compassion fatigue among nurse professionals in order to examine natural grieving reactions and how they potentially change nurses’ lives. The focus of this study included nurse professionals working in rural …
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We Were Such a Happy Family: Lessons in Imperfection
<p>What does it mean to hold both your love of your family and their deep and sometimes harmful flaws? This memoir in essays, 100-word stories, and poetry examines themes of imperfection, love, and loss—and what it means to be a family—against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
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The Hummingbird Bargain
… hybrid forms and represent my quest to combine narrative with lyric elements to reflect the life of a physician poet looking back on forty years of medical practice. The natural world provides reflection and consolation to the world of the hospital and medical office. The dual vision of the …
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Physician-as-patient literature: Introducing and fostering a culture of empathy in medicine
… to practice empathy. The concept of empathetic medicine can be introduced in medical school training by integrating empathy education into scientific curriculum. Current practitioners can benefit from narrative exercises, reflection and physician self-disclosure in efforts to promote empathy. …
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Reflective Writing in Medical Education: A Writing Professional's Exploration of Purposes and Practices
… grapple with psychosocial aspects of medicine, has become widely employed in medical education. Its entrance into the field in the late 1990s was a direct response to the biomedical model common in Western medicine, which situates patients as a sum of their biological parts and …
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StarSung: A Timeslip Novel
<p>StarSung is an ambitious timeslip speculative fiction novel, slipping back and forth</p> <p>between the present and ancient times. Several modern women independently experience an out- of-time incident, feeling as if they had just barely survived a genocidal event in the distant past.</p> <p>The …
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From symptoms to systems: An autoethnography of cystic fibrosis through systems engineering
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Elements of ritual, myth, and subversion in works of Graphic Medicine
… field that has come to be known as Graphic Medicine. It will demonstrate the way in which these different forms deal with experiences of embodiment, space, memory, and time, with an emphasis on the way in which the distinct formal tensions of the comics medium allow for these states to be …