Doctors' Stories : : The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge / / Kathryn Montgomery Hunter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hunter, Kathryn Montgomery,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: INTERPRETING MEDICINE --; PART ONE: MEDICINE AND INTERPRETATION --; ONE Knowledge in Medicine: Reading the Signs --; TWO A Science of Individuals: Medicine and Uncertainty --; PART TWO: NARRATIVE IN MEDICINE --; THREE The Representation of the Patient --; FOUR ''There Was This One Guy . . . ": Anecdotes in Medicine --; FIVE Writing Up the Case: Charts and Case Reports --; SIX An N of 1: Clinical-Pathological Conferences and Syndrome Letters --; SEVEN Patients, Physicians, and Red Parakeets: Narrative Incommensurability --; EIGHT A Case for Narrative --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691214726; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691214726?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kathryn Montgomery Hunter.

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.