Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Intersubjectivity
Chapter 1. Accounts of Self: Exploring Relationality through Literature
Maura Spiegel and Danielle Spencer
Introduction
Self-Telling: Colm Tóibín and the Need to Tell
Monologue and Dialogue: Dostoevsky and Bakhtin
Recognition in Bechdel's Fun Home: Thickening the Story
Identification and Refusal in Kazou Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Conclusion

Chapter 2. This Is What We Do, and These Things Happen: Experience, Emotion, and Relationality In The Classroom
Maura Spiegel and Danielle Spencer
Socio-relational dynamics and medical education
The Narrative Medicine Classroom / Workshop
Conclusion

Part II: Dualism, Personhood, and Embodiment
Chapter 3: Dualism and its Discontents I: Philosophy, Literature, and Medicine
Craig Irvine and Danielle Spencer
"Hi. How are you feeling today?": Tales of Alienation in Healthcare
Biomedicine in recent history
The Cave and the Machine: Philosophical Roots of Dualism

Chapter 4: Dualism and its Discontents II: Philosophical Tinctures
Craig Irvine and Danielle Spencer
Philosophical Tinctures: Phenomenology and Narrative Hermeneutics
Philosophical Narratives: Complexity and Multiplicity
Soul

Chapter 5: Deliver us from Certainty: Training for Narrative Ethics
Craig Irvine and Rita Charon
Narrative Ethics of Reading
Narrative Ethics of Clinical Practice
Ethics of Narrative Medicine

Part III: Identities in Pedagogy
Chapter 6: The Politics of Pedagogy: Cripping, Queering and Un-homing Health Humanities
Sayantani DasGupta
Introduction
Crip Politics and the Medicalization of Health Humanities
Queer Politics and the Problems of Intelligibility
Un-Homing Narrative Medicine: Pedagogical Frames
Conclusion

Part IV: Close Reading
Chapter 7: Close Reading: The Signature Method of Narrative Medicine
Rita Charon
The Origin and Fate of Close Reading
Why Narrative Medicine Is Committed to Close Reading
Close Reading and Its Progeny, Attentive Listening
The Interior Processes of Close Reading
Close Reading Enacts the Principles of Narrative Medicine
Coda

Chapter 8: A Framework for Teaching Close Reading
Rita Charon
One Way to Teach Close Reading
Choosing Texts and Creating Prompts
Time
Space
Voice
Metaphor
Conclusions and Room for Further Thought

Part V: Creativity
Chapter 9: Creativity: What, Why, and Where?
Nellie Hermann
Creativity in Our Everyday Lives
What is Creative Writing for, particularly in the clinical context?
Forms and Dividends of Creative Writing
Creative Writing and Reflective Writing

Chapter 10: Can Creativity be Taught?
Nellie Hermann
Strategies for Writing in the Health Professions
A Teaching Tool: The Reading Guide for Reflective Writing
The Approach to the Writing Student
Finally: focus on the creative spark

Part VI: Qualitative Ways of Knowing
Chapter 11: The Ethnographic Field: Narrative, Visual, Contextual
Edgar Rivera Colón
Narrative Prelude
Demystifying Qualitative Research Methods
An Embodied, Reflexive Practice
Making the world visible
The Ethnographic Witness


Part VI: Clinical Practice
Chapter 12: A Narrative Transformation of Health and Health Care
Eric Marcus and Rita Charon
RC Tells the Clinical Story
EM: Concepts-Transference and Transitional Space
RC: Concepts-Creativity, Reflexivity, Reciprocity
Coda

Chapter 13: Clinical Contributions of Narrative Medicine
Rita Charon
Individual Interview/Relationship Techniques
Clinician and Health Care Team Development
Novel Narrative Practices
Clinicians See

Author Biographies
Bibliography
Index