Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process [Kindle Edition]
Author: Lewis, M.D., Ph.D. Mehl-Madrona Thom Hartmann | Language: English | ISBN: B004P1JEGQ | Format: PDF, EPUB
Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process
Direct download links available Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process [Kindle Edition] for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient’s own story in the healing process
• Shows how conventional medicine tends to ignore the account of the patient
• Presents case histories where disease is addressed and healed through the narrative process
• Proposes a reinvention of medicine to include the indigenous healing methods that for thousands of years have drawn their effectiveness from telling and listening
Modern medicine, with its high-tech and managed-care approach, has eliminated much of what constitutes the art of healing: those elements of doctoring that go beyond the medications prescribed. The typically brief office visit leaves little time for doctors to listen to their patients, though it is in these narratives that disease is both revealed and perpetuated--and can be released and treated.
Lewis Mehl-Madrona’s Narrative Medicine examines the foundations of the indigenous use of story as a healing modality. Citing numerous case histories that demonstrate the profound power of narrative in healing, the author shows how when we learn to dialogue with disease, we come to understand the power of the “story” we tell about our illness and our possibilities for better health. He shows how this approach also includes examining our relationships to our extended community to find any underlying disharmony that may need healing. Mehl-Madrona points the way to a new model of medicine--a health care system that draws its effectiveness from listening to the healing wisdom of the past and also to the present-day voices of its patients. Direct download links available for Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process
Direct download links available Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process [Kindle Edition] for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient’s own story in the healing process
• Shows how conventional medicine tends to ignore the account of the patient
• Presents case histories where disease is addressed and healed through the narrative process
• Proposes a reinvention of medicine to include the indigenous healing methods that for thousands of years have drawn their effectiveness from telling and listening
Modern medicine, with its high-tech and managed-care approach, has eliminated much of what constitutes the art of healing: those elements of doctoring that go beyond the medications prescribed. The typically brief office visit leaves little time for doctors to listen to their patients, though it is in these narratives that disease is both revealed and perpetuated--and can be released and treated.
Lewis Mehl-Madrona’s Narrative Medicine examines the foundations of the indigenous use of story as a healing modality. Citing numerous case histories that demonstrate the profound power of narrative in healing, the author shows how when we learn to dialogue with disease, we come to understand the power of the “story” we tell about our illness and our possibilities for better health. He shows how this approach also includes examining our relationships to our extended community to find any underlying disharmony that may need healing. Mehl-Madrona points the way to a new model of medicine--a health care system that draws its effectiveness from listening to the healing wisdom of the past and also to the present-day voices of its patients. Direct download links available for Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process
- File Size: 603 KB
- Print Length: 340 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1591430658
- Publisher: Bear & Company; 1 edition (February 23, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004P1JEGQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #292,717 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Narrative Medicine is a radical critique of conventional medicine in which Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D. challenges the knowledge system that physicians, especially psychiatrists, use to diagnose illness and direct treatment. Mehl-Madrona's writing style is straight-forward and concrete, enlivened with his skillful use of patient stories and historical examples drawn from his years in practice and as a professor of medicine, currently at University of Saskatchewan and before that, University of Arizona. He traces the philosophical roots of western medicine's fundamental axioms that disease can be understood with a mechanistic, biological model alone, and that valid medical solutions must generalize to a large population. Mehl-Madrona uses clinical experiences, recent research in physics, and advances in post-modern philosophy to underscore how these medical truths are, in themselves, a story. "Narrative therapy," as described by more than 200 Amazon authors, is promoted as an effective tool to be added to the physician's standard repertoire. Narrative medicine, by contrast, is not a tool; it is a way of seeing. In Mehl-Madrona's experience, storytelling is transformative, capable of promoting healing as a consequence of the interplay between teller and listeners.
As a cancer researcher, I found that Narrative Medicine held the key to understanding interviews I conducted with ovarian cancer survivors. I had asked these women to tell me how they learned of their diagnosis. What they told me were stories of how their illness had changed their self-understanding. For most, their interactions with the medical community had been frustrating and fragmented. They described being shuttled back and forth among a variety of experts (e.g.
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