Narrative & Graphic Medicine

“Graphic medicine and literary pathographies: The aesthetics and politics of illness narratives in contemporary comics and literature” (PathoGraphics) analyzes English and German works from an inter-medial and cross-cultural perspective.

This PubMed search is only searching for "Narrative Medicine" within the defined MESH terms. MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles for PubMed. "Narrative Medicine" was included as a MESH term in 2018, consequently articles published before 2018 which could be categorized as "Narrative Medicine" may not be included in the search results. Search String: "Narrative Medicine"[Mesh]

This simple search string includes the Mesh Term as well as a search for the term within the text of the article. Search string: "Narrative Medicine"[Mesh] OR "Narrative Medicine"[Text]

*Publishing personal accounts of illness and healing
* fostering the humanistic practice of medicine
*encouraging health care advocacy.

Whole Health Library, US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Narrative Medicine was written by Annie Robinson, M.S. (2014, updated 2018).

Charon, R. (2007). What to do with stories: The sciences of narrative medicine. Canadian Family Physician, 53(8), 1265–1267.
PMCID: PMC1949238

Charon R. Narrative Medicine A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust. JAMA. 2001;286(15):1897–1902. doi:10.1001/jama.286.15.1897

AAMCNews March 28, 2017

Sara ElShafie, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, discusses what can happen when scientists partner with professional storytellers.
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The Online Schedule includes registration for virtual workshops in writing & Narrative Medicine. Workshops open to health care professionals (active and retired), parents, patients, storytellers, musicians, etc.