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Thursday Review: “Integrating Narrative Medicine into Clinical Care”

This week’s review centers around a brief but meaningful summary of a 2016 pilot to integrate Narrative Medicine into medical students’ clinical rotations. So far, most Thursday Reviews have tried to discover how the authors’ findings support and expand the use of storytelling in medicine. This week, I’d like to do something a little different. […]

April 26, 2018By meaningwell Thursday Review literature, medical education, medical humanities, nonadherence, nonconcordance, oral performance, performance

Thursday Review: “Performing Narrative Medicine”

I was initially interested in Kristin M. Langellier’s article because of the idea of performance. The main project of my work in medical storytelling has been to take the ideas bound up in Narrative Medicine and apply them to face-to-face interaction. With Narrative Medicine, my concern has always been that narrative skills are often parallel […]

March 22, 2018By meaningwell Thursday Review close reading, intersubjectivity, narrative competence, narrative complexity, performance, performance theory, structure, text