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margaret_adams's review against another edition
This is the kind of book you need read with a lot of blank paper nearby so you can take notes. It's a dense and well-done critical theory (the title is an homage to Osler's seminal textbook) that is admittedly on the venn diagram of some of my main interests. The text draws on literary theory, philosophy, narrative ethics and the creative arts in an attempt to "help professionals not just diagnose and treat patients but to bear witness to what they undergo." My main critique is that in places the text works too hard to codify this emerging field and comes off as a justification of Columbia University's Master of Science in Narrative Medicine program. Overall a great read, one I will be returning to a lot.
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