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Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 32 Citations 8,256 78 World Ranking 4267 National Ranking 2173

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Awards & Achievements

2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Health care

Rita Charon mainly investigates Narrative, Narrative medicine, Psychoanalysis, Narrative inquiry and Medical education. The various areas that she examines in her Narrative study include Empathy, Bioethics, Medical ethics and MEDLINE. Her research integrates issues of Reflective writing and Chart in her study of Empathy.

Her Bioethics research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Narrative psychology and Humanities. Her work carried out in the field of Narrative inquiry brings together such families of science as Health care and Competence. Her Medical education study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Nursing and Curriculum.

Her most cited work include:

  • Narrative Medicine: A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust (1141 citations)
  • Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (935 citations)
  • Narrative and Medicine (312 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Narrative, Narrative medicine, Psychoanalysis, Medical education and Narrative inquiry are her primary areas of study. Her study in Narrative is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Empathy, Reflective writing, Health care and Curriculum. Her Reflective writing research focuses on Social psychology and how it connects with Narratology.

Her research in Narrative medicine focuses on subjects like Aesthetics, which are connected to Power. Her Psychoanalysis research includes elements of Witness, Medical ethics, Self and Narrative ethics. Narrative inquiry is closely attributed to Bioethics in her study.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Narrative (36.43%)
  • Narrative medicine (27.13%)
  • Psychoanalysis (14.73%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2012-2020)?

  • Narrative medicine (27.13%)
  • Narrative (36.43%)
  • Curriculum (7.75%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Rita Charon mostly deals with Narrative medicine, Narrative, Curriculum, Reflective writing and Medical education. Her work deals with themes such as Psychotherapist, Psychodynamic psychotherapy and Transference, which intersect with Narrative medicine. Her Narrative research includes themes of Pedagogy, Nursing, Id, ego and super-ego, Psychoanalysis and Close reading.

Her Curriculum study which covers Focus group that intersects with MEDLINE and Medical psychology. Her Reflective writing study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Creative writing, Program evaluation, Interprofessional education and Reading. Her Medical education research includes themes of Interprofessional teamwork, Social psychology, Primary care and Conceptualization.

Between 2012 and 2020, her most popular works were:

  • Narrative medicine as a means of training medical students toward residency competencies (134 citations)
  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (69 citations)
  • Sounding narrative medicine: studying students' professional identity development at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. (65 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Health care

Her primary scientific interests are in Narrative, Narrative medicine, Curriculum, Nursing and Medical education. Her Narrative study combines topics in areas such as Creative writing, Reflective writing, Reading and Close reading. Her Reflective writing research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Interpersonal communication, Social psychology, Narrative ethics, Dualism and Psychoanalysis.

Her research in Narrative medicine intersects with topics in Pedagogy, Self-assessment and Medical psychology. Her Nursing research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Self care, Health care, Follow up studies, Work of art and Qualitative research. In Medical education, Rita Charon works on issues like Focus group, which are connected to MEDLINE, Clinical skills, The arts and Medical humanities.

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Best Publications

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

Rita Charon.
JAMA (2001)

1802 Citations

Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness

Rita Charon.
(2006)

1505 Citations

Narrative and Medicine

Rita Charon.
The New England Journal of Medicine (2004)

476 Citations

Personal illness narratives: using reflective writing to teach empathy.

Sayantani DasGupta;Rita Charon.
Academic Medicine (2004)

465 Citations

Narrative Medicine: Form, Function, and Ethics

Rita Charon.
Annals of Internal Medicine (2001)

329 Citations

Literature and medicine: contributions to clinical practice.

Rita Charon;Joanne Trautmann Banks;Julia E. Connelly;Anne Hunsaker Hawkins.
Annals of Internal Medicine (1995)

307 Citations

Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics

Rita Charon;Martha Montello.
(2004)

291 Citations

Older patient satisfaction with communication during an initial medical encounter.

Michele G. Greene;Ronald D. Adelman;Erika Friedmann;Rita Charon.
Social Science & Medicine (1994)

256 Citations

The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics.

Rita Charon;Arthur W. Frank.
Contemporary Sociology (1996)

243 Citations

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

Michele G. Greene;Ronald Adelman;Rita Charon;Susie Hoffman.
Language & Communication (1986)

208 Citations

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