Rita Charon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rita Charon plays a role.
Articles
2007 The self-telling body Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 225–235 | Article
This essay will examine some of the narrative practices emerging in the health care professions — medicine, nursing, social work, and psychotherapy. We have always, of course, understood that the most fertile and clinically salient information we derive about patients comes from listening to them… read more
2006 The self-telling body Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 191–200 | Article
This essay will examine some of the narrative practices emerging in the health care professions — medicine, nursing, social work, and psychotherapy. We have always, of course, understood that the most fertile and clinically salient information we derive about patients comes from listening to them… read more
1993 Medical Interpretation: Implications of Literary Theory of Narrative for Clinical Work Journal of Narrative and Life History 3:1, pp. 79–97 | Article
Abstract Literary narrative theory offers robust conceptual frameworks for understand-ing the act of writing, the act of reading, the configuration of plot, and the narrative contract that binds writer and reader together. This article applies some current theoretical approaches used in studying… read more