Relevant Publications
Compassion Fatigue
Communication
Alternative Medicine
Cultural Competency
Providers as Patients
Empathy/Compassion
Health Literacy
Health Policy
Hope
Narrative Medicine
End-of-Life Care
Patient Empowerment
Clinical Relationships
Quality of Care
Risk Management
Spirituality
Health Care Training
Treatment Refusal
Schwartz Rounds Cases

Relevant Publications

NARRATIVE MEDICINE

Narrative Samples

Abma T. Struggling with the fragility of life: a relational-narrative approach to ethics in palliative nursing. Nurs Ethics. 2005;12(4):337-48.

Alcauskas M, Charon R. Right brain: reading, writing, and reflecting: making a case for narrative medicine in neurology. Neurology. 2008 Mar;70(11):891-4. Review.

Baider L. Communicating about illness: a family narrative. Support Care Cancer. 2008 Jan; [Epub ahead of print]

Blickem C, Priyadharshini E. Patient narratives: the potential for “patient-centred” interprofessional learning. J Interprof Care. 2007;21(6):619-32.

Bingley A, McDermott E, Thomas C, et al. Making sense of dying: a review of narratives written since 1950 by people facing death from cancer and other diseases. Palliat Med. 2006;20(3):183-95. Review.

Boyd J. Narrative aspects of a doctor-patient encounter. J Med Humanit. 1996;17(1):5-15.

Campo R. “Anecdotal evidence”: why narratives matter to medical practice. PLoS Med. 2006;3(10):e423.

Carter B. Pain narratives and narrative practitioners: a way of working ‘in-relation’ with children experiencing pain. J Nurs Manag. 2004;12(3):210-6. Review.

Cepeda M, Chapman C, Miranda N, et. al. Emotional disclosure through patient narrative may improve pain and well-being: results of a randomized controlled trial in patients with cancer pain. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2008 Mar 21; [Epub ahead of print]

Charon R. Narrative medicine: a model for empathy, reflection, profession, and trust. JAMA. 2007;286:1897-1902.

Charon R. What to do with stories: the sciences of narrative medicine. Can Fam Physician. 2007;53(8):1265-7. Review.

Charon R, Wyer P, NEBM Working Group. Narrative evidence based medicine. Lancet. 2008 Jan;371(9609)296-7.

Charon R. Narrative medicine: honoring the stories of illness. New York: Oxford University Press US; 2006.

Charon R. Narrative medicine: attention, representation, affiliation. Narrative 13:3. Ohio State University Press. 2005;13(3):261-70.

Charon R. Narrative and medicine. NEJM. 2004;350(9):862-4.

Charon R, Montello M. Stories matter: the role of narrative in medical ethics. London: Routledge; 2002.

Charon R. What narrative competence is for. Am J Bioethics. 2001;1(1):62-3.

Charon R. Narrative medicine: form, function, and ethics. Ann Intern Med. 2001;134(1):83-7.

Charon R. Narrative medicine: a model for empathy, reflection, profession and trust. JAMA. 2001;286(15):1897-1902.

Charon R. Medicine, the novel, and the passage of time. Ann Intern Med. 2000;132(1):63-8.

Charon R. Narrative accuracy in the clinical setting. Med Encoun. 1994;11(1):20-3.

Charon R. Medical interpretation: implication of literary theory of narrative for clinical work. J Narrative Life History.1993;3(1):79-97.

Charon R. The narrative road to empathy. In : Spiro H, ed. Empathy and the medical profession: Beyond pills and the scalpel. New Haven: Yale University Press; 1993. p.147-59.

Chatwin J. Patient narratives: a micro-interactional analysis. Commun Med. 2006;3(2):113-23.

Connelly J. Narrative possibilities: using mindfulness in clinical practice. Perspect Biol Med. 2005;48(1):84-94.

DasGupta S. Between stillness and story: lessons of children’s illness narratives. Pediatrics. 2007;119(6):e1384-91. Review.

Divinsky M. Stories for life: introduction to narrative medicine. Can Fam Physician. 2007;53(2):203-5, 209-11.

Gaydos H. Understanding personal narratives: an approach to practice. J Adv Nurs. 2005. 49(3):254-9. Review.

Haidet P, Knoll T, Sharf B. The complexity of patient participation: lessons learned from patients’ illness narratives. Patient Educ Couns. 2006;62(3):323-9.

Hatem D, Rider E. Sharing stories: narrative medicine in an evidence-based world. Patient Education and Counseling. 2004;54:251-3.

Hawkins S. Emergency medicine narratives: a systematic discussion of definition and utility. Acad Emerg Med. 2004;11(7):761-5. Review.

Inui T, Frankel R. Hello, stranger: building a healing narrative that includes everyone. Acad Med. 2006;81(5):415-8.

Nelson S, McGillion M. Expertise or performance? Questioning the rhetoric of contemporary narrative use in nursing. J Adv Nurs. 2004;47(6):631-8.

Nettleton S, Watt I, O’Malley L, Duffey P. Understanding the narratives of people who live with medically unexplained illness. Patient Educ Couns. 205;56(2):205-10.

Pearson A, McTigue M, Tarpley J. Narrative medicine in surgical education. J Surg Educ. 2008 Mar-Apr;65(2):99-100.

Poses R. Narrative medicine. Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(10):929-30.

Raholm M. Uncovering the ethics of suffering using a narrative approach. Nurs Ethics. 2008 Jan;15(1):62-72. Review.

Sakalys J. Restoring the patient’s voice. The therapeutics of illness narratives. J Holist Nurs. 2003;21(3):228-41. Review.

Scannell K. Writing for our lives: physician narratives and medical practice. Ann Intern Med. 2002;137(9):779-81.

Sierpina V, Kreitzer M, Mackenzie E, Sierpina M. Regaining our humanity through story. Explore. 2007;3(6):626-32.

Spiegel M, Charon R. The narrative imperative and the ethics of listening. Lit Med. 2005;24(2):7-11.
Swift T, Dieppe P. Using expert patients’ narratives as an educational resource. Patient Educ Couns. 2005;57(1):115-21.

Yaskowich K, Stam H. Cancer narratives and the cancer support group. J Health Psychol. 2003;8(6):720-37.

Young A, Rodriguez K. The role of narrative in discussing end-of-life care: eliciting values and goals from text, context, and subtext. Health Comm. 2006;19(1):49-59.

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Narrative Samples

Anderson J, Martin P. Narratives and healing: exploring one family’s stories of cancer survivorship. Health Commun. 2003;15(2):133-43.

Bone R. Benediction: A farewell to my medical colleagues. J Critical Illness. 1977;12(7):439-40.

Burch K. The art of oncology: when tumor is not the target. Home to Benin. J Clinical Oncology. 2005;23(28):7226-9.

DelVecchio Good M, Gadmer N, et al. Narrative nuances on good and bad deaths: internists’ tales from high technology work places. Soc Sci Med. 2004;58(5):939-53.

Facione N, Dodd M. Womens’ narratives of helpseeking for breast cancer. Cancer Pract. 1995;3(4):219-25.

Frank J. Telling the truth with compassion. Fam Med. 2007;39(10):708-9.

Gunther M, Thomas S. Nurses’ narratives of unforgettable patient care events. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2006;38(4):370-6.

Haidet P, Osorio G. You gotta draw the line somewhere. Health Aff. 2005;24(3):811-16.

Land A. Learning to grieve each death. Student Scene. Harvard Medical School. 2003. Available from: http://webweekly.hms.harvard.edu

Land A. The language of medicine. Student Scene. Harvard Medical School. 2003. Available from: http://webweekly.hms.harvard.edu

Rambach P. All that matters:  memoir from the wellness community of greater Boston. Boston: The Paper Journey Press; 2006.

Rider E. It's because they didn't know our names. Arch Ped Adol Med. 2002;156:531.

Rider E. Danny’s mother: a lesson in humility. Arch Ped Adol Med. 2003;157:228.

Schnipper, H. Through the looking glass: A piece of my mind. JAMA. 1996;276(19):1535-6.

Swan H. On being a doctor: Kath.  Ann Int Med. 1992;117(12):1049-1050.

Thomsen D, Pedersen A, Johansen M, et al. Breast cancer patients’ narratives about positive and negative communication experiences. Acta Oncol. 2007;46(7):900-8.

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