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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
 
 
Case as a representational tool ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
 
 
What is a case? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Case Reports –  linguistic ‘portraits’ ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Case Report –  A narrative and a model composed of testimonies ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
 

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What sort of a Narrative is the Clinical Case Report?

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