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Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx rests on the principles that storytelling is central to medical encounters between caregivers and patients and that narrative competence enhances medical competence.
List of contents
Chapter One Narrative as Rhetoric and the Art of Medicine
Chapter Two Principles and Activities of Rhetorical Reading: Understanding, Overstanding, and Springboarding
Chapter Three Character and Progression I: Understanding and Overstanding Richard Selzer's "Imelda"
Chapter Four Character and Progression II: Colm Toibin's "One Minus One" as Portrait Narrative
Chapter Five Somebody Telling I: Authors, Narrators, Characters, and Occasions
Chapter Six Somebody Telling II: Perspective and Voice
Chapter Seven Time
Chapter Eight Space
Chapter Nine From Print to Comics: Toward a Rhetoric of Graphic Medicine
Chapter Ten Fictionality
Chapter Eleven Rhetorical Narrative Medicine Workshops: Understanding, Overstanding, Springboarding
About the author
James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of English at Ohio State University, is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than 20 books, including
Narrative as Rhetoric (1996),
Living to Tell about It (2005),
Experiencing Fiction (2007),
Reading the American Novel, 1920-2010 (2013),
Somebody Telling Somebody Else (2017), and, with Matthew Clark,
Debating Rhetorical Narratology (2020). He has been the editor of
Narrative, the journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, since its inception in 1993. He has received an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University in Denmark and been elected into the Norwegian Academy of Letters and Science. In 2021 he received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Summary
Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx rests on the principles that storytelling is central to medical encounters between caregivers and patients and that narrative competence enhances medical competence.
