Illness narratives: Reliability, authenticity and the empathic witness

Medical Humanities

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 68-72

  Shapiro, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; HUMAN; TRUST; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EMPATHY; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; NARRATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TRUST;

EID: 82255191817     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2011.007328     Document Type: Article

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