- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Illness narratives in practice
- Chapter 3 The researchers’ role in re-constructing patient narratives to present them as patient experiences
- Chapter 4 Stories, illness, and narrative norms
- Chapter 5 Choices of illness narratives in practice
- Chapter 6 Illness narratives in counselling—narrative medicine and narrative ethics
- Chapter 7 An illness narrative or a social injustice narrative?
- Chapter 8 Retelling one’s life story—how narratives improve quality of life in chronic language impairment
- Chapter 9 Narrative practice, neurotrauma, and rehabilitation
- Chapter 10 Illness narratives in the workplace
- Chapter 11 Using narratives for medical humanities in medical training
- Chapter 12 The ‘narrative spirit’
- Chapter 13 How to use illness narratives in medical education
- Chapter 14 Using patient narratives as source material for creative writing
- Chapter 15 Engaging the vulnerable encounter
- Chapter 16 Drawing on narrative accounts of dementia in education and care
- Chapter 17 Using illness narratives in clinical diagnosis
- Chapter 18 Structural dream analysis
- Chapter 19 What’s in a name?
- Chapter 20 Narratives in decision aids
- Chapter 21 Understanding and using health experiences to improve healthcare—examples from the United Kingdom
- Chapter 22 Illness narratives as evidence for healthcare policy
- Chapter 23 When public and private narratives diverge
- Chapter 24 Pregnancy 2.0
- Chapter 25 Changes in authenticity
- Chapter 26 Illness narratives in political communication
- Biographies
- Author Index
- Subject Index
(p. 151) How to use illness narratives in medical education: First teaching experiences with the German DIPEx website project
- Chapter:
- (p. 151) How to use illness narratives in medical education: First teaching experiences with the German DIPEx website project
- Author(s):
Alexander Palant
, and Wolfgang Himmel
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780198806660.003.0013
To be effective, (future) clinicians should gain an understanding of patients’ perspectives when it comes to having an illness. How patients experience their illness is best represented in illness narratives. Such illness narratives can be found on the website
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- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Illness narratives in practice
- Chapter 3 The researchers’ role in re-constructing patient narratives to present them as patient experiences
- Chapter 4 Stories, illness, and narrative norms
- Chapter 5 Choices of illness narratives in practice
- Chapter 6 Illness narratives in counselling—narrative medicine and narrative ethics
- Chapter 7 An illness narrative or a social injustice narrative?
- Chapter 8 Retelling one’s life story—how narratives improve quality of life in chronic language impairment
- Chapter 9 Narrative practice, neurotrauma, and rehabilitation
- Chapter 10 Illness narratives in the workplace
- Chapter 11 Using narratives for medical humanities in medical training
- Chapter 12 The ‘narrative spirit’
- Chapter 13 How to use illness narratives in medical education
- Chapter 14 Using patient narratives as source material for creative writing
- Chapter 15 Engaging the vulnerable encounter
- Chapter 16 Drawing on narrative accounts of dementia in education and care
- Chapter 17 Using illness narratives in clinical diagnosis
- Chapter 18 Structural dream analysis
- Chapter 19 What’s in a name?
- Chapter 20 Narratives in decision aids
- Chapter 21 Understanding and using health experiences to improve healthcare—examples from the United Kingdom
- Chapter 22 Illness narratives as evidence for healthcare policy
- Chapter 23 When public and private narratives diverge
- Chapter 24 Pregnancy 2.0
- Chapter 25 Changes in authenticity
- Chapter 26 Illness narratives in political communication
- Biographies
- Author Index
- Subject Index