NARRATIVE AND MEDICINE 2012

Rita Charon: Rita Charon is a general internist and literary scholar at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. She teaches medical students about the language of medicine, how to build helpful relationships with patients, and how to use the imagination in the care of the sick. By creating the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia in 2000, Dr. Charon brought together scholars from the humanities and social sciences with doctors, nurses, social workers, psychoanalysts to think, together, about how the use of stories improves health care. She is the author of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (2006) and co-editor of Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine (2008) and Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics (2003). She is working on a book on Henry James.