Metaphor and medicine: Narrative in clinical practice

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 1-6, 2003, Pages 87-95

  Coulehan, Jack ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

CANCER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; HEALING; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGING; LITERATURE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICINE; REVIEW; SYMBOLISM; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

FEMALE; GREEK WORLD; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LITERATURE, MODERN; MEDICINE; METAPHOR; NARRATION; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 22244438862     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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