TY - BOOK ID - 78109760 TI - Narrative matters in medical contexts across disciplines AU - Gygax, Franziska AU - Locher, Miriam A PY - 2015 SN - 9027269033 9789027269034 1336200804 9781336200807 9027226601 9789027226600 9789027226600 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia DB - UniCat KW - Medical writing. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Patients' writings. KW - Sick KW - Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge. KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Methodology KW - Science and the humanities KW - Diseases KW - Illness behavior KW - Sick role KW - Medicine and psychology KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Writings of patients KW - Literature KW - Hygiene KW - Medical sciences KW - Medicine KW - Public health KW - Technical writing KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Psychology. KW - Psychological aspects KW - Authorship KW - #KVHA:Taalkunde KW - #KVHA:Meertalige communicatie KW - #KVHA:Medische taal UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78109760 AB - The benefits of incorporating narrative methods in teaching and learning in medical education are now widely accepted through the work of scholars including Rita Charon, Brian Hurwitz and Trisha Greenhalgh. In this chapter we consider issues that arise during the process of implementing the teaching of narrative medicine within a medical curriculum that is dominated by bioscience content and assessments that are largely based upon assimilation of factual knowledge and competency in a range of clinical skills. In this context the medical humanities have had a mixed reception. We consider how ps ER -