Doctors' Stories

Zusatztext "A lucid! witty! insightful account." ---Steven H. Miles! M.D.! The Journal of the American Medical Association Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Montgomery Hunter Klappentext A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts! and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? Addressing readers on both sides of the patient-physician encounter! Kathryn Hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story--the patient's story of illness and its symptoms. Zusammenfassung A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? And what becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? This book looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Hunter, Kathryn Montgomery Hunter
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.03.1993
• EAN: 9780691015057
• ISBN: 978-0-691-01505-7
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; General practice, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, MEDICAL / Practice Management & Reimbursement, Communication Studies, General Practice / Family Medicine