MEDICINE AND NARRATIVE THOUGHT
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2019/2020
- Teacher
- LOREDANA LA VECCHIA
- Credits
- 2
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- M-PED/04
Training objectives
- The course aims to make the student able to:
- recognise the conceptual elements that connect medicine to narrativity
- be familiar with models and instruments of a qualitative nature
- recognise and define the meaning, structure and suggestions/metaphors of narrations
- use the traditional approach (bio-medical) and the narrative approach in a complete way
- cooperate with the patient, their relatives and other figures involved in order to improve the care relationship Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The biomedical approach (theories and cultural models)
Medical Humanities
Narrative thought (definition, characteristics, function)
Narrativity in clinical practice
Qualitative research methods in medicine
Presentations of some experiences Didactic methods
- Face-to-face lessons, group work. Lectures
Learning assessment procedures
- Structured written test, closed questions and open-ended questions (both during the course and final test)
Reference texts
- Jerome Bruner. La mente a più dimensioni. Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2003
Anton Cechov. La corsia n. 6 (material provided by lecturer)
