Why study narrative?

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 367-369

  Greenhalgh, Trisha ^a   Hurwitz, Brian ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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