What sort of a Narrative is the Clinical Case Report?
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Professor of Medicine and the Arts, KCL A talk based on: Hurwitz B Clinical Cases and Clinical Case Reports: Boundaries and Porosities. In: Morisco B, Turchetti G, Calanchi A, Castellani G.(eds) The Case and the Canon Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress (In Press) expected date publication Autumn 2010
What sort of a Narrative is the Clinical Case Report?
- 1. What sort of a Narrative is the Clinical Case Report? AHRC Collaborative Research Training March 2010 Brian Hurwitz Professor of Medicine and the Arts, KCL A talk based on: Hurwitz B Clinical Cases and Clinical Case Reports: Boundaries and Porosities. In: Morisco B, Turchetti G, Calanchi A, Castellani G.(eds) The Case and the Canon Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress ( In Press ) expected date publication Autumn 2010
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- 4. Case as a representational tool Hippocratic case reports (4 th and 5 th C BC) Galenic (2 nd C AD) 17 th & 18 th C case reports 19 th and 20 th C reports Hospital and GP Cases – including self reports by doctors
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- 7. What is a case? Events and occurrences pertaining to individuals Case Case Report Biography, Memoir, Pathography, Illness Narrative
- 8. Case Reports – linguistic ‘portraits’ Presentational Communicational Not medical records, letters, notes…etc Conversationally or formally presented
- 9. Case Report – A narrative and a model composed of testimonies Conversation Observation – external/internal Description/analysis – fluids, tissues Imaging Response to treatment
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