Narrative Medicine: Harnessing the Power of Storytelling through Essays

Narrative Medicine: Harnessing the Power of Storytelling through Essays
Author: Arthur Lazarus MD MBA
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2024-04-03
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1663261423

Discover the powerful impact of storytelling and narrative in the medical field with, “Narrative Medicine: Harnessing the Power of Storytelling Through Essays,” by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA. The book is divided into three sections: Section 1: Medicine Section 2; Storytelling Section 3: Writing Fifty-one essays offer insights and reflections that delve into the heart and soul of healthcare practice, storytelling, and narrative writing. As the pages unfold, you will journey through the compelling world of narrative medicine, showcasing the profound effect of stories in healing and understanding, and underlining their significance in shaping patient experiences, guiding treatment approaches, and fostering a deeper connection between healthcare practitioners and those they serve. This book is an invitation to explore the intricate tapestry of medical narratives and to acknowledge them as an integral part of the therapeutic process.

Story Treasures

Story Treasures
Author: Arthur Lazarus MD MBA
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2024-09-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1663266468

Discover how storytelling and narrative unite us with the medical field in, “Story Treasures: Medical Essays and Insights in the Narrative Tradition,” by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA. The book is divided into two sections: Section 1: Essays Section 2: Insights Fifty narratives offer constructive viewpoints and insights that capture the resilience of the human spirit, the intricacies of the human body, and the profound impact of empathy and compassion in caring for patients. Each story is a pearl, offering a glimpse into the challenges, triumphs, and moments of introspection that define the medical profession and life as a whole. These stories are not merely anecdotes from the author’s career; they are reflections on life, the essence of being, and the universal quest for meaning in times of uncertainty. Through these narratives, Dr. Lazarus uncovers not only the intellectual and technical aspects of medical practice but also the emotional and philosophical dimensions that often remain hidden from public view—for example, career turmoil; generational conflict; artificial intelligence; and ethical and leadership challenges, to name a few. He extends an invitation to readers to pause, reflect, and appreciate the intricate dance between health and illness, life and death, joy and sorrow. Readers will find within these pages not only a deeper understanding of the medical world but also a renewed appreciation for the resilience and beauty of the human spirit. Join Dr. Lazarus in this journey, where each essay is a treasure, and each insight a gem. Collectively, his stories reaffirm the preciousness of life and the enduring strength of the human heart.

21st Century Schizoid Health Care

21st Century Schizoid Health Care
Author: Arthur Lazarus MD MBA
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2024-10-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1663267693

Discover how to stay grounded on your medical journey with, “21st Century Schizoid Health Care: Essays and Reflections to Keep You Sane on Your Medical Travels,” by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA. The book is divided into two sections: Section 1: Essays In this section, Dr. Lazarus shares insightful essays that delve into the convoluted challenges of modern healthcare. Drawing from his extensive experience, he explores the multifaceted nature of the medical profession, offering thoughtful analysis and practical advice to help readers navigate the increasing complexity of the U.S. healthcare system. Section 2: Reflections Here, Dr. Lazarus provides personal reflections that offer a more intimate glimpse into the emotional and psychological aspects of practicing medicine. These reflections aim to inspire and support readers in maintaining their well-being and finding balance amidst the demanding and often chaotic environment of 21st-century health care. Within these pages, readers will discover comfort, motivation, and a revitalized sense of purpose as they strive to enhance their health on their medical journeys.

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
Author: Teresa L. Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 794
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000451380

A seminal text in the field, this new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication provides students and scholars with a comprehensive survey of the subject’s key research foundations and trends, authored by the discipline’s leading scholars. The third edition has been completely updated and reorganized to guide both new researchers and experienced scholars through the most critical and contemporary topics in health communication today. There are eight major sections covering a range of issues, including interpersonal and family health communication; patient-provider communication; healthcare provider and organizational health communication; mediated health communication; campaigns, interventions, and technology applications; and broad issues such as health literacy, health equity, and intercultural communication. Attention also is devoted to foundational issues in health communication, such as theory and method; multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary communication research; research translation, implementation, and dissemination; and narrative health communication. There is new attention to policy and NGOs, the environment, public health crises, global health, mental health and mental illness, and marginalized populations such as Black, Latinx (a/o), Native/First People, and LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as the multiple challenges health communication researchers face in conducting research. The handbook will continue to serve as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and healthcare professionals doing work in health communication.

Revitalizing Health Through Humanities: Foregrounding Unheard Trends

Revitalizing Health Through Humanities: Foregrounding Unheard Trends
Author: L. Santhosh Kumar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2024-11-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1040268889

Health Humanities in contemporary times has enabled exploration of the unexplored chartered terrains in literary paradigms. Scholars in the field of Humanities and Sciences have been engaging with the praxis of applying concepts from both disciplines revising the approach towards Health Care and Humanities. Due to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methodologies of reading literary texts, they have been reinforcing a paradigm shift from the conventional understanding of narratives in Literature and Health Care. Traditional discursive boundaries between the disciplines of Health and Humanities are collapsing due to a comprehensive and nuanced interpretation of the shared ontological foundation between the two – Humanism. Terminologies like Displacement, Dislocation, and Disjunction unite Health and Humanities and they also make the unknown, known. Health Humanities explores the different multitudes of narration in the literary arena and it represents diverse voices of literature. It also showcases the importance of re-reading a text owing to its autotelic status. The authors who have contributed chapters for this book have meticulously selected diverse texts and contexts, embedded in the dynamism of Health Humanities. This book is an impetus for academicians from the field of Humanities and Sciences who desire to venture into new epistemes towards Health Humanities.

Narrative Medicine

Narrative Medicine
Author: Rita Charon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2008-02-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195340221

Narrative medicine emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. This book provides an introduction to the principles of narrative medicine and guidance for implementing narrative methods.

Becoming Disabled

Becoming Disabled
Author: Jan Doolittle Wilson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2021-06-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793643709

Using an autoethnographic approach, as well as multiple first-person accounts from disabled writers, artists, and scholars, Jan Doolittle Wilson describes how becoming disabled is to forge a new consciousness and a radically new way of viewing the world. In Becoming Disabled, Wilson examines disability in ways that challenge dominant discourses and systems that shape and reproduce disability stigma and discrimination. It is to create alternative meanings that understand disability as a valuable human variation, that embrace human interdependency, and that recognize the necessity of social supports for individual flourishing and happiness. From her own disability view of the world, Wilson critiques the disabling impact of language, media, medical practices, educational systems, neoliberalism, mothering ideals, and other systemic barriers. And she offers a powerful vision of a society in which all forms of human diversity are included and celebrated and one in which we are better able to care for ourselves and each other.

Writing for Wellbeing

Writing for Wellbeing
Author: Katrin Den Elzen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2023-07-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000886735

Writing can support our wellbeing even under the most difficult life circumstances, helping us to adapt to significant change, make sense of loss, improve our physical and emotional resilience, and foster personal growth. Numerous studies of Expressive Writing have confirmed this, and there are other established methodologies for practice. However, to date, few accounts have offered detailed descriptions showing how and why putting pen to paper can be so beneficial. This book delves deeply into the landscape of Writing-for-wellbeing and demonstrates the transformative power of writing in a wide range of contexts. Topics include personal trauma narratives within the Humanities; a participatory Writing-for-wellbeing study that demonstrates the effectiveness of writing in the context of grief and loss; surprise as the hidden mainspring of poetry's therapeutic potency; the empowerment and healing potential offered by Black women’s blogs; playwriting positioning LGBTQIA+ identities as positive through stories of belonging; how writing workshops have helped newly literate Indigenous adults and other participants in the Australian outback; and how the smuggled writings of Behrouz Boochani have enabled global witnessing of the stories of refugees held in offshore detention. This resource sets out the theory and research at the foundation of Writing-for-wellbeing in close relation to full and engaging accounts of practice. It aims to make the topic accessible and affirms its place as an effective reconstructive practice alongside other expressive arts therapies, providing a holistic and inspiring resource for anyone wishing to practice, teach, or research Writing-for-wellbeing.

Singular Intimacies

Singular Intimacies
Author: Danielle Ofri, MD
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780807072516

A “finely gifted writer” shares “fifteen brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country—and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters these 250-year-old doors as a tentative medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, life-and-death decisions, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, and overworked interns devising creative strategies to cope with the feverish intensity of a big-city hospital. Yet the emphasis of Singular Intimacies is not so much on the arduous hours in medical training (which certainly exist here), but on the evolution of an instinct for healing. In a hospital without the luxury of private physicians, where patients lack resources both financial and societal, where poverty and social strife are as much a part of the pathology as any microbe, it is the medical students and interns who are thrust into the searing intimacy that is the doctor-patient relationship. In each memorable chapter, Ofri’s progress toward becoming an experienced healer introduces not just a patient in medical crisis, but a human being with an intricate and compelling history. Ofri learns to navigate the tangled vulnerabilities of doctor and patient—not to simply battle the disease.

The Story Handbook

The Story Handbook
Author: Helen Whybrow
Publisher: Center for Land and People Book, the Trust for Public Land
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780967280622

In "The Story Handbook, contributors Tim Ahern, William Cronon, John Elder, Peter Forbes, Barry Lopez, and Scott Russell Sanders present us with the power of stories, narratives of people and places, and how those stories can advance the work of land conservation toward creating meaningful change in our culture. As TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND president Will Rogers writes in his introduction, "true success in our work means moving land conservation out of the emergency room' of last-ditch efforts... To do this we will need to help create a fundamental change in how our society thinks about and treats land; we will need to nurture the flowering of a new land ethic. Stories may be our best way to get there." The Trust for Public Land is a leader in conservation, to improve the quality of life in our communities and to protect our natural and historic resources for future generations.