Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care and Director, Healthcare Innovation and Policy Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.

• Introduction. 1.Why study narrative?.2.Turtles all the way down.Illness stories.3.Themedian isn't the message.4.The night my life changed.5.The good bleed guide.6.Stories of dying.7.Have i got epilepsy or has it got me?.Filler: the conker tree.Narrative in medicine.8.Pain narratives.9.Following hte story: continuity of care in general practice.10.Narrative and mental health.11.Sirens, stray dogs and the narrative of hilda thomson.12.The surgeon's narrative.Filler: pressuring mrs thomas to accept her treatment.Learning and teaching narrative.13.Literature in medicine.14.Teaching humanities in the undergraduate medical curriculum.15.The golden narrative in british medicine.16.Nursing, narrative and the moral imagination.Filler: Upwardly mobile.Understanding narrative in health care.17.Stories that we hear and stories we tell.18.Narrative in psychotherapy.19.The narrative in medical record.20.Anecdote in clinical practice.Filler: Dead notes.Broader perspectives on narrative in health care.21.Narrative in medical ethics.22.Cross cultural medical narratives: some case studies from latvia and siberia.23.The narrative stream in medical negligence.24.Narrative based medicine in an evidence based world.Filler: Dear tom

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