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Narrative medicine. An ethical reappraisal

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La medicina narrativa focalizza le dimensioni dell'ascolto relazionale, in cui i partner dell'alleanza terapeutica esplorano e costruiscono assieme la trama della vicenda di malattia e dell'impresa di cura. La pratica del racconto evita la deriva naturalistica e tecnicistica in biomedica, ma esige una serie di competenze interpretative e deve guardarsi dai rischi di un approccio ingenuo e spontaneistico. Nel momento della decisione clinica, la ricchezza della narrazione può essere valorizzata, a condizione che la giustificazione etica mantenga in tensione storie e princìpi, simboli e concetti, ideali di vita buona e teorie razionali.
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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.

How to Cite

Cattorini, P. M. (2015). Narrative medicine. An ethical reappraisal. Medicina E Morale, 64(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2015.26