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D-Index
39
Citations
12088
World Ranking
5503
National Ranking
2604

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Rita Charon is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with multiple contributions to subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Philosophy, and Education.

The core focus of their scholarly work involves topics such as Empathy and Medical Education, Innovations in Medical Education, Film in Education and Therapy, Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity, Health and Medical Research Impacts, Ethics in Medical Practice, and Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare.

A selection of their recent published papers includes:

  • Knowing, seeing, and telling in medicine, 2021, The Lancet
  • Racial Justice in Medicine: Narrative Practices toward Equity, 2021, Narrative

Other notable publications in their recent work, although not solely authored by them, touch related fields and topics:

  • COVID 19: Ethical dilemmas in human lives, 2020, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Reading the Self: Medical Students' Experience of Reflecting on Their Writing Over Time, 2020, Academic Medicine
  • Disability and narrative medicine: Challenges and opportunities, 2023, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

Rita Charon has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Maura Spiegel, Smadar Bustan, Mirco Nacoti, Mylène Botbol-Baum, and Katherine Fischkoff.

Their work has appeared in various publication venues such as The Lancet, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Academic Medicine, Narrative, and Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology.

In addition to journal articles, Rita Charon has contributed to book publications, including "Encountering Pain: Hearing, seeing, speaking," published by UCL Press in 2021.

In recognition of their contributions, they were awarded the title of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Narrative Medicine: A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust

    Rita Charon

  • Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness

    Rita Charon

  • Personal illness narratives: using reflective writing to teach empathy.

    Sayantani DasGupta;Rita Charon

  • Narrative and Medicine

    Rita Charon

  • Narrative Medicine: Form, Function, and Ethics

    Rita Charon

  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

    Rita Charon;Nellie Hermann;Maura Spiegel;Sayantani DasGupta

  • The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics.

    Rita Charon;Arthur W. Frank

  • Literature and medicine: contributions to clinical practice.

    Rita Charon;Joanne Trautmann Banks;Julia E. Connelly;Anne Hunsaker Hawkins

  • Narrative medicine as a means of training medical students toward residency competencies

    Shannon L. Arntfield;Kristen Slesar;Jennifer Dickson;Rita Charon

  • Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics

    Rita Charon;Martha Montello

  • Older patient satisfaction with communication during an initial medical encounter.

    Michele G. Greene;Ronald D. Adelman;Erika Friedmann;Rita Charon

  • What to do with stories: The sciences of narrative medicine

    Rita Charon

  • Ageism in the medical encounter: an exploratory study of the doctor-elderly patient relationship.

    Michele G. Greene;Ronald Adelman;Rita Charon;Susie Hoffman

  • Narrative Medicine: Attention, Representation, Affiliation

    Rita Charon

  • The Physician-Elderly Patient-Companion Triad in the Medical Encounter: The Development of a Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda

    Ronald D. Adelman;Michele G. Greene;Rita Charon

  • Narrative evidence based medicine.

    Rita Charon;Peter Wyer

  • Close Reading and Creative Writing in Clinical Education: Teaching Attention, Representation, and Affiliation.

    Rita Charon;Nellie Hermann;Michael J. Devlin

  • Sounding narrative medicine: studying students' professional identity development at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

    Eliza Miller;Dorene Balmer;Nellie Hermann;Gillian Graham

  • At the membranes of care: stories in narrative medicine.

    Rita Charon

  • Psychosocial Concerns In the Medical Encounter: A Comparison of the Interactions of Doctors with Their Old and Young Patients

    Michele G. Greene;Susie Hoffman;Rita Charon;Ronald Adelman

Frequent Co-Authors

Erika Friedmann
Erika Friedmann University of Maryland, Baltimore
Susie Hoffman
Susie Hoffman Columbia University
Arthur W. Frank
Arthur W. Frank University of Calgary

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