“I am the Author and Must Take Full Responsibility”: Abraham Verghese, Physicians as the Storytellers of the Body, and the Renewal of Medicine

Abraham Verghese proposes to renew medicine by training physicians to read the right texts—literary fiction and patients' bodies—with skilled attention. Analyzing Verghese's proposal with reference to Foucault's idea of the "clinical gaze," I find that Verghese conceives of...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of medical humanities 2016-12, Vol.37 (4), p.389-399
1. Verfasser:	Nussbaum, Abraham M.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Communication Cultural and Media Studies Education, Medical Literature Medicine in Literature Physician-Patient Relations Regional and Cultural Studies Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
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