User driven health care and narrative medicine
Rakesh Biswas
We are in our capacity as editors of a new book entitled, “User-Driven Healthcare and Narrative Medicine: Utilizing Collaborative Social Networks and Technologies” soliciting chapters written by patients along with health professionals and other stakeholders as co authors in their continued effort to learn more about the disease that they have been involved in managing together.
Short of that we also welcome chapters written by patients or health professionals separately on their own experiences in dealing with certain diseases (or even in general their practical experiences with various diseases and the role of web learning with its easy or difficult to obtain similar experiential narratives and EBM literature that may have gone a long way toward improving or perhaps even harming health outcomes).
One of our goals in using patient stories is to create a bottom up patient centered learning model separate from the traditional text book disease centered model still prevalent in medical school curricula.
Using real patient stories relating the patient's journey helps to create a real world patient centered context in the growing minds of students in the healthcare profession who are at an impressionable stage.
These students are an important target audience for this book.
Please find the details in this web link:
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=657
There is also a chapter template available online at:
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/
Appreciate your help and guidance in formulating strategies toward this book and look forward to your response.
Warm regards,
rakesh
http://peoplesgroup.academia.edu/RakeshBiswas
and
carmel
http://normed.academia.edu/CarmelMartin
Editors: 'User driven healthcare and narrative medicine' by IGI Global
publishers