Narrative Structure and Narrative Knowing in Medicine and Science / / ed. by Martina King, Tom Kindt.
It has become a truism that we all think in the narrative mode, both in everyday life and in science. But what does this mean precisely? Scholars tend to use the term ‘narrative’ in a broad sense, implying not only event-sequencing but also the representation of emotions, basic perceptual processes...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 206 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Section 1: Science
- Oedipal Camels? Narrative and Science in Aristotle’s Historia Animalium
- Narrating Bones: Goethe’s Early Osteological Writings from Physiognomy to Type (1776–1794)
- The ‘Mystery’ of Quantum Physics: Narrating the Wave-Particle Duality in a Richard Feynman Lecture
- Of Still Faces and Micro-Plots: Audiovisual Narration in Infant Mental Health
- Section 2: Medicine
- Narrating Birth: The Emergence of Male Expertise in Obstetrical Case Reports around 1800
- Console, Classify and Advertise: Narrative Structures of Case Reporting and Their Epistemic Function in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry (Pargeter, Arnold, Pinel)
- The Discharge Letter in Clinical Medicine: History and Epistemology of an Unknown Narrative Genre
- “I Had a Patient Who . . .”: Narratives of Vicarious Experience in GPs’ Discourse on Domestic Violence
- Contributors
- Index