N. 16 (2016)

Narrative and Medicine

• Introduction: Narrative Theories and the Medical Humanities

  Elena Fratto

  1-5

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• The Shock of Attention

  Rita Charon

  6-17

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• Local Fictionality within Global Nonfiction: Roz Chast's Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

  Jim Phelan

  18-31

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• Evaluating Representations of Mental Health in Young Adult Fiction: The Case of Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Alison Sagara Monaghan

  32-42

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• Going Under and Coming Round: Anesthesia, Narrative, and Trauma

  Catherine Belling

  43-53

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• Narrative Time and the Thyroid: Hormone Secretions and Storytelling in Italo Svevo's "Doctor Menghi's Drug"

  Elena Fratto

  54-67

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• Narrative and Cultural History in the Hippocratic Treatise On Ancient Medicine

  Marco Romani Mistretta

  68-79

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• Pratica medica e trascendenza in Gehirne (1916) di Gottfried Benn

  Tommaso Meozzi

  80-89

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• Empathic Communications and Narrative Competence in Contemporary Medical Education

  Lindsay Holmgren

  90-104

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• Enhancing Physician Empathy: Optimizing Learner Potential for Narrative Transportation

  Casey Hester, Ronald Schleifer

  105-118

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• Philoctetes and the Good Companion Story

  Arthur W. Frank

  119-127

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