HPS 0613 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Narrative Medicine, Narrative, Opiate

• School: Pitt
• Department: History and Philosophy of Science
• Course: HPS 0613
• Professor: Jonathan Fuller

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Choose one of 3 cases, answer 5 questions. Don"t need to use external sources, but if you use someone else"s ideas you must cite and include references. Weeks jan 20-27: identifying the problems in a bioethical case. Weeks of feb 24 and march 4: creating an essay outline. Week of march 16: revising your essay. Treat the disease (aka the biomedical problem) Diagnosed with lam, a degenerative lung disease. The spiraling decline of her lung function; it scares her beyond words . Each day her world shrinksa narrow unchosen life descends on hershe feels trapped in a body and a life she never wanted. How can emma convey the life-changing impact of her illness on her? . Phenomenology: philosophical method of rich description of experience. The clinical case as a story, an illness narrative. Importance of empathy, close listening and finding or making meaning. Help emma find new meaning in her life.