Narrative Medicine

Catalog description

How do patients, real and fictional, tell the story of their own illness? How do those stories compare to the ones told by health professionals? Can stories help us heal, and help us improve patient-doctor relations? We will address these questions through global and domestic examples of narrative medicine, and will write our own stories, to explore what they can teach us about who we are as individuals, our cultures, and the relationship between health, self, cultural context, and narrative. The course is restricted to students in the RN2BS program. It will be offered twice a year depending on the needs of the RN2BS program.