Narrative Medicine in Education, Practice, and Interventions

Anders Juhl Rasmussen. Associate professor of Narrative Medicine at the Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.Anne-Marie Mai. Professor of Nordic Literature at the Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.Helle Ploug Hansen. Professor Emerita of Humanistic Rehabilitation Research at the Research Unit for General Practice, University of Southern Denmark.

• Foreword, Rita Charon; Introduction; NARRATIVES IN MEDICINE CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3; NARRATIVE MEDICINE IN HEALTHCARE EDUCATION  CHAPTER 4; CHAPTER 5; NARRATIVES IN HEALTHCARE PRACTICE CHAPTER 6; CHAPTER 7; NARRATIVE MEDICINE IN INTERVENTIONS CHAPTER 8; CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 10; Afterword, Rishi Goyal; Author biographies; Register

This is a book with an ambitious goal—to encapsulate both the challenging and healing experiences of patients (from acute illness to addiction and recovery, and in settings ranging from cancer treatment to writing groups) and academic understandings of and influences on such experiences, while also taking into account the ways those two milieus are shaped by—and shape—healthcare as a global business. This business of healing, often though not always hospital-based, is depicted as one which inflects and is sculpted by narratives produced by patients. The questions Narratives in Medicine asks are field-encompassing, while the base assumptions its authors make—and the answers they give—are based on personal experience teaching and practicing at the University of Southern Denmark, Columbia University, the University of Oklahoma, and Rutgers University. It’s an approach that allows local, site-specific insights to flourish alongside global inquiry.—Rebecca M. Rosen; Assistant Professor of English at Murray State University