# Narrative Medicine

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- Book: [Narrative Medicine](https://www.bookquiver.com/rita-charon/narrative-medicine) ([Narrative Medicine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rita-charon/narrative-medicine.md))
- Authors: [Rita Charon](https://www.bookquiver.com/rita-charon)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 978-01-9534-022-8
- Published: 2008-01-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of patients. Charon argues that by making genuine contact with patients through storytelling, narrative medicine leads to more humane, ethical, and effective health care.