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Narrative matters : the power of the personal essay in health policy

Title
Narrative matters : the power of the personal essay in health policy / edited by Fitzhugh Mullan, Ellen Ficklen, and Kyna Rubin ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Mullan, Fitzhugh.
  • Ficklen, Ellen.
  • Rubin, Kyna.
Description
xxi, 293 pages; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Health affairs (Project Hope)
Subjects
Genre/Form
Collected Work.
Note
  • "A Health affairs reader."
  • Anthology of essays published in the Narrative matters section of Health affairs journal.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Me and the system : the personal essay and health policy / Fitzhugh Mullan -- Using and misusing anecdote in policy making / John E. McDonough -- Out of the closet and into the legislature : breast cancer stories / Barbara F. Sharf -- Gouging the medically uninsured : a tale of two bills / Irene M. Wielawski -- Tea, biscuits, and health care prioritizing / Marthe R. Gold -- Doctors have patients, governors have citizens / Richard D. Lamm -- Hooked on neonatology / John D. Lantos -- Here comes trouble / Karen Roberts -- Shopping for long-term care / Deborah Stone -- On being a grantmaker / Michael Lerner -- Despierta! / Daniel J. Derksen -- Pizza ship / W. Richard Boyte -- Where's David? / Janette H. Kurie -- Maria / Mahlon Johnson -- Voices from the clinic : AIDS then and now / Abigail Zuger -- The yellow baby / Fitzhugh Mullan -- Blind faith and choice / Rhiannon Tudor Edwards -- Of wheelchairs and managed care / Andrew I. Batavia -- Getting the elderly their due / David Carliner -- My mother and the medical care ad-hoc-racy / David M. Lawrence -- Tin-cup medicine / Fitzhugh Mullan -- Acquainted with the night / Paul Raeburn -- Learning genetics / Sharon F. Terry -- Accountable but powerless / Barry Adams -- Leaving nursing / Ray Bingham -- Dolores / Daniel J. Derksen -- Attending death with dignity / Sharon LaDuke -- A matter of influence / Howard Brody -- As drug marketing pays off, my mother pays up / Janet R. Gilsdorf -- No free lunch / Paul Jung -- Out of the shadow / Neil S. Calman -- Subcutaneous scars / Vanessa Northington Gamble -- No come Nada / Richard S. Garcia -- Concordance / Alok Khorana -- La Promotora / Darryl M. Williams -- Immigration pediatrics / Fitzhugh Mullan -- Casey's legacy / W. Richard Boyte -- No one needs to know / Neil S. Calman -- At the end of a day / Alok Khorana -- Life but no limb : the aftermath of medical error / Carol Levine -- Incidental illness / Danielle Ofri -- The rest is silence / Michael Rowe -- DNAbling parents / Lisa Sweetingham -- What are we going to do with Dad? / Jerald Winakur -- Kidneys and the kindness of strangers / David Steinberg -- The curtain / W. Richard Boyte.
ISBN
  • 0801884780 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780801884788 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0801884799 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780801884795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006005257
OCLC
  • ocm64230079
  • 64230079
  • SCSB-5327603
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries