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Vol. 64 No. 2 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2015.26
Narrative medicine. An ethical reappraisal
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Narrative based medicine focuses the humanistic dimension of the clinical encounter, that implies a mutual talking and listening, an expressing and an understanding effort between the patient and the care giver. The experience of getting ill, of searching for help, of receiving and/or giving medical support is interpreted as a plot of aiding sequences, and told as a covenant story. Some defects may nevertheless be observed: incompetence in narratology, naivety in the semantic discernment, depreciation of the psychoanalytic heritage, illusory therapeutic presumption, lack of an adequate ethical framework.
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Narrative medicine. An ethical reappraisal. (2015). Medicina E Morale, 64(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2015.26
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