Publications

Authors:

Salvini, MARIA CATERINA; Mortari, Luigina

Title:

The Necessary Reconciliation between Evidence Based Medicine and Narrative Medicine

Year:

2017

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

ISSN of journal:

2220-8488

N° Volume:

7

Number or Folder:

5

Page numbers:

170-180

Keyword:

Medical humanities, Bioethics, Phenomenology, Evidence-based medicine, Narrative medicine, Empathy, Comprehension, Charon

Short description of contents:

nalyzing a question about medicine (is evidence based medicine the best alternative in dealing withpatients?), through an epistemological and hermeneutical approach the paper comes to an ethical answer. Patients are studied by clinicians as objects of a diagnostic investigation, while they are the subjects living their life and enduring illnesses. The paper argues that healthcare professionals (physicians, surgeons, nurses, etc.) should employ a more personalized approach in the way they provide care to patients. Scientific explanations of diseases should be integrated by human comprehension regarding what the disease entails for the patient’s lif e. Rita Charon proposes the narrative method as an efficient and ethic way to provide care to patients, through human virtues such as understanding, empathy and attentive listening. The practice of such virtues encouraged by many pioneers of medicine since Hippocrates, will allow healthcare professionals to be touched and supported in their therapeutic tasks by their patients’ desire for good.

Web page:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/dcb4/519433c8fce96fa97b7b6d69dad47d6dc256.pdf

Product ID:

100575

Handle IRIS:

11562/973104

Last Modified:

November 14, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Salvini, MARIA CATERINA; Mortari, Luigina, The Necessary Reconciliation between Evidence Based Medicine and Narrative Medicine «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE» , vol. 7 , n. 5 , 2017 , pp. 170-180

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