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The Underground Railroad—Narrative Medicine
5/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
To The Lighthouse—Narrative Medicine
4/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
Never Let Me Go—Narrative Medicine
3/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
The Wings of the Dove—Narrative Medicine
2/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
Sonny's Blues—Narrative Medicine
1/5 Reflections on medicine as practised by someone who knows what to do with stories.
Sonny's Blues
How James Baldwin's short story helped break down divisions of class, age and race.
The Wings of the Dove
Finding a model for the physician in the pages of Henry James.
Never Let Me Go
What does it mean to be human, and how can physicians respond to life's mysteries?
To The Lighthouse
Dr Rita Charon traces literary parallels in the responses of New Yorkers to 9/11.
The Underground Railroad
How a novel about American slavery is used to train medical students.
