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Narrative medicine and healthcare reform.
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PMID:  21053060     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Narrative medicine is one of medicine's most important internal reforms, and it should be a critical dimension of healthcare debate. Healthcare reform must eventually ask not only how do we pay for healthcare and how do we distribute it, but more fundamentally, what kind of healthcare do we want? It must ask, in short, what are the goals of medicine? Yet, even though narrative medicine is crucial to answering these pivotal and inescapable questions, it is not easy to describe. Many of its core claims go against the grain of common sense thinking about medicine. This article argues that the best way to understand narrative medicine is to tell a story that puts its emergence in historical context.
Authors:
Bradley E Lewis
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of medical humanities     Volume:  32     ISSN:  1573-3645     ISO Abbreviation:  J Med Humanit     Publication Date:  2011 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-02-18     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8917478     Medline TA:  J Med Humanit     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  9-20     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, 1 Washington Place #609, New York, NY, 10003, USA, bl466@nyu.edu.
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