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Against Narrative Medicine
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 56, Number 4, Autumn 2013
- pp. 611-619
- 10.1353/pbm.2013.0032
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This essay aims to provoke debate on how and what the medical humanities should teach. It argues that the field has been dominated (to its detriment) by two misguided movements, postmodernism and narrative medicine, and that it should be redirected from utilitarian aims towards the goal of exposing medical students to a climate of thought and reflection.