Narrative Medicine

Catalog description

Narrative medicine is the use of narrative competency in clinical and other healing contexts to enhance patient, family, or community healing and well-being. Use of well-established research and practice in medical anthropology, the broader medical humanities, and cutting-edge clinical scholarship to help students gain narrative competency. Students will learn why narrative and meaning are critical to healing, how to become aware of patient narratives, and how to practice attention to the stories of others. Students will also learn foundational interpretive skills grounded in close reading and discourse analysis.