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Stories are better than lectures at teaching us about health

  • Written by Sheila Murphy, Professor of Communication , University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Humans having been using stories or narratives to transmit crucial information for thousands of years. Despite that, Western medicine largely ignores the use of narrative and instead continues to rely on lists of dos and don’t’s, facts and figures...

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