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Adler HM. The history of the present illness as treatment: who's listening, and why does it matter? Journal of the Board of Family Physicians. 1997; 10(1):28-35.
Charon, R. To render the lives of patients. Literature and Medicine.5:58-74. 1986.
Greenhalgh T, Hurwitz B. Narrative based medicine: why study narrative. British Medical Journal. 318(7175):48-50, 1999 http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7175/48
Greenhalgh T, Hurwitz B. Narrative Based Medicine. London: BMJ Books; 1998.
Kleinman A. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition. New York: Basic Books; 1988.
Nicholas B, Gillett G. Doctors' stories, patients' stories: a narrative approach to teaching medical ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics. 1997;23:295-299.
Sorum PC. Patient as author, physician as critic: insights from contemporary literary theory. Archives of Family Medicine. 1994;3:549-56.
The British Medical Journal website offers a downloadable series of full-text articles about narrative based medicine at http://www.bmj.org/ To get to the articles, perform an Archive search for narrative medicine
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