Title The chief concern of medicine : 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

Published Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 456 pages) Contents Introduction : Medicine, narrative, and schema-based understanding -- Part 1. Phonetic Skills : The Technē of Medicine -- 1. The functional realism of medicine -- 2. Modalities of science : Narrative, phronesis, and the skills (technē) of medicine -- 3. The chief concern of medicine : Narrative knowledge and schema-based practice -- 4. The logic of diagnosis : Peirce, literary narrative, and the history of present illness -- Part 2. The Work of Narrative in Practices of Medicine -- 5. The patient-physician relationship : The scene of narration -- 6. The patient's story : The apprehension of narration -- 7. Doctors listening and attending to patients : Response and engagement with acts of narration -- Part 3. Schema-Based Medicine -- 8. Narrative and medicine : Schemas of narration -- 9. Narrative and everyday medical ethics : Schemas of action -- Conclusion -- 10. Reading 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' -- Afterword : The nexus of literature and medicine ; The interactions of patient and physician -- Appendix 1. Humanities as a discipline -- Appendix 2. Checklists for skills in listening, interviewing, and action -- Appendix 3. A compilation of schemas for medical practices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Unlike any existing studies of the medical humanities, 'The Chief Concern of Medicine' brings to the examination of medical practices a thorough - and clearly articulated - exposition of the nature of narrative. The book builds on the work of linguistics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory and examines numerous literary works and narrative "vignettes" of medical problems, situations, and encounters. Throughout, the book presents usable expositions of the ways storytelling organizes itself to allow physicians and other healthcare workers (and even patients themselves) to be more attentive to and self-conscious about the information - the "narrative knowledge" - of the patient's story Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Medicine in literature. Medicine and the humanities. Physician and patient. Narrative medicine. Medical ethics. Medical history taking. Narration Physician-Patient Relations Ethics, Medical Medical History Taking Medicine in Literature MEDICAL -- Diagnosis. MEDICAL -- Laboratory Medicine. MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Assessment & Diagnosis. MEDICAL -- General. Narrative medicine Medical history taking Medical ethics Medicine and the humanities Medicine in literature Physician and patient Form Electronic book Author Vannatta, Jerry, author. Crow, Sheila, author. Vannatta, Seth, 1973- contributor. LC no. 2012033644 ISBN 0472028863 9780472028863

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