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Introduction: Embodiment, Identity, and the Patient’s Story
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 56, Number 2, Summer 2016
- pp. 1-11
- 10.1353/esp.2016.0016
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This introduction looks at the links between medicine and narrative, arguing that patients’ stories have a valuable role to play in patient-centered healthcare. Two particular areas are addressed: first, the ways in which first-person expressions of embodied experience may contribute to medicine’s empathetic endeavor; and second, the lack of research to date into autopathography in the French-speaking world.