Doctors' stories: the narrative structure of medical knowledge
Choice Reviews OnlinePublished 1 December 1991
Kathryn Montgomery Hunter
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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.
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Reviewsat the same time fundamental public criticism of it and a need for alternative therapies (cf.pp. 31 9f.
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Medicine