Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process »

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D., is certified in family practice, geriatrics, and psychiatry and worked for years in rural emergency medicine. He is currently an associate professor of family medicine and psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan and is the author of Narrative Medicine, Coyote Healing, Coyote Wisdom, and the bestselling Coyote Medicine. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Lewis Mehl-Madrona’s examination of the indigenous use of story as a healing modality 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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Awakening to Narrative Medicine

1 The Roots of Narrative Medicine

2 Transcending Limitations

3 The Maps That Define Our Reality

4 Master Narratives

5 The Power of Large Groups in Shaping Identity

6 Narrative Medicine in Action

7 Talking with Asthma

8 Talking with Mental Illness

9 Talking with Cancer

10 Making Meaning for Diabetes

11 Talking with the Universe

12 Creating a Roundtable of Healing

Conclusion: Revising Our Stories about Health Care and Healing

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