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Narrative medicine: honoring the stories of illness. - R. Charon.
ISBN/ISSN: 0195340221
A comprehensive and systematic introduction to the conceptual principles underlying narrative medicine, as well as a practical guide for implementing narrative methods in health care.

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End-of-life care and pragmatic decision making: a bioethical perspective. - D.M. Hester.
ISBN/ISSN: 0521130735
Provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death. D. Micah Hester takes seriously the complexities of experiences and argues that when making end-of-life decisions healthcare providers ought to pay close attention to the narratives of patients and the communities they inhabit so that their dying processes embody their life stories.