, a clinical medicine professor at Columbia University, will visit 农夫导航
to deliver a public lecture on narrative medicine - a discipline pursuing the convergence
of literature, healthcare and ethics - on Monday, September 21.
The free lecture takes place at 7 p.m. in the George G. Brown Center鈥檚 Frazier Hall.
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鈥淢y colleagues and I at Columbia created a field that we called narrative medicine,
which we defined very simply as clinical practice fortified by the knowledge of what
to do with stories,鈥� explained Charon in a .
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"Sick people need physicians who can understand their diseases, treat their medical
problems, and accompany them through their illnesses,鈥� she for The Journal of the American Medical Association. 鈥淒espite medicine's recent dazzling
technological progress in diagnosing and treating illnesses, physicians sometimes
lack the capacities to recognize the plights of their patients, to extend empathy
toward those who suffer, and to join honestly and courageously with patients in their
illnesses.鈥�
Charon is a professor of clinical medicine and director of the Program in Narrative
Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A general
internist with a primary care practice in Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Charon pursued
a Ph.D. in English after observing the importance of telling and listening to stories
by doctors and patients. She teaches literature and narrative ethics, both in the
medical center and Columbia's English department.
She is currently principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health project
to enhance the teaching of social science and behavioral science in medical schools.
Her work in narrative medicine has been recognized by the Association of American
Medical Colleges, the American College of Physicians, the Society for Health and Human
Values, the American Academy on Healthcare Communication and the Society of General
Internal Medicine.
Charon is author of 鈥淣arrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness鈥� and co-editor
of 鈥淧sychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine and Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative
in Medical Ethics.鈥�
Charon delivers TEDx talk.