Tabla de materias
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Peter L. Rudnytsky
Part I Contextualizing Narrative Medicine
1. Where Does Narrative Medicine Come From? Drives, Diseases, Attention and the Body
Rita Charon
2. Desire and Obesity: Dickens, Endocrinology, Pulmonary Medicine, and Psychoanalysis
Sander L. Gilman
Richard Lewis Holt
4. Narrative Medicine and Negative Capability
Terrence Holt
Part II Psychoanalytic Interventions
5. “The Past Is a Foreign Country”: Some Uses of Literature in the Psychoanalytic Dialogue
Vera J. Camden
6. It’s Really More Complicated Than You Imagine: Narratives of Real and Imagined Trauma
Bennett Simon
7. Narrative and Feminine Empathy: James to Kristeva
Janet Sayers
8. The Fortunate Physician: Learning from Our Patients
Fred L. Griffin
Part III The Patient’s Voice
9. Learning How to Tell
Lisa J. Schnell
10. Imagining Immunity
Ed Cohen
11. A Perspective on the Role of Stories as a Mechanism of Meta-Healing
Kimberly R. Myers
12. The Discourse of Disease: Patient Writing at the “University of Tuberculosis”
Jean S. Mason
Part IV Acts of Reading
13. The Teaching Cure
Jeffrey Berman
14. Reading, Listening, and Other Beleaguered Practices in General Psychiatry
Neil Scheurich
15. Uncertain Truths: Resistance and Defiance in Narrative
Schuyler W. Henderson
16. Narrative and Beyond
Geoffrey Hartman
Afterword
Material and Metaphor: Narrative Treatment for the Embodied Self
Rita Charon
Notes on Contributors
Index
Sobre el autor
Peter L. Rudnytsky is Professor of English at the University of Florida and editor of the journalAmerican Imago.
Rita Charon is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and coeditor of the journal
Literature and Medicine.