The aim of narrative medicine is to become a crucial contribution in addressing the complex societal challenge of developing a healthcare system that prioritizes the patient’s voice, history, and perspective. Moreover, it aims to achieve a better balance between human beings, health, and society.
Narrative medicine focuses on the following research questions:
Rasmussen, A.J. & Sodemann, M. (eds.). (2024) Narrative Medicine: Trauma and Ethics. Vernon Press.
Rasmussen, A.J., Mai, A.-M. & Hansen, H.P. (eds.). (2022) Narrative Medicine in Education, Practice, and Interventions. Anthem Press.
Laursen, S.S., Rasmussen, A.J., Andersen, T.R. & Hansen, H.P. (2023) ”It Really Just Wrote Itself: Facilitated Creative Writing for People With Chronic Illness”. I Casal, T. & de Jesus Cabral, M. (red.). Global Perspective on Probing Narratives in Healthcare. IGI Global, s. 97-112.
Rasmussen, A.J., Thiele M., J.K. Hansen, & Nielsen, A.S. “Aesthetic Stories to Address Stigma. A Novel Intervention Model”. Flynn, C, Hurley, U (eds.). Beyond Words: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Creative Writing and Wellbeing. Bloomsbury [in progress]
Goyal, R., Rasmussen, A.J. (2025) ”Uses of Fairy Tales in Medical Education”. Journal of Medical Humanities.
Rasmussen, A.J. (2025) “To be Able to Live Among the Dead. On Empathetic Images of Death and Dying in Harald Voetmann’s Amduat. An Oxygen Machine”. Journal of Research in Sickness and Society.
Graabæk, T., Rasmussen, A.J., Mai, A.-M., Rossing, C. & Hedegaard, U. (2022) “Can Literary Reading and Writing Improve Pharmacists’ Medication Counselling? A Feasibility Study of Pharmacists’ Efforts to Achieve Competence in Narrative Medicine”. Pharmacy Education, vol 22, nr 1, s. 744-760.
Rasmussen, A.J. (2021) “Spaces of Psychosis and Poetics in Tove Ditlevsen’s Novel The Faces”. Synapsis – A Health Humanities Journal, online.
Rasmussen, A.J. & Hørder, M. (2020) ”Places and Spaces in the Danish Health Services Over Time”. Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, online.
Hansen, T. G., Rasmussen, A.J., Mai, A-M., Rossing, C., Andersen, M. K. & Hedegaard, U., (2024). “Pharmacists’ empathy after a postgraduate course in narrative medicine: An observational study”. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. 8 s.
Keynote at the Educational Aspects of Medical and Health Humanities conference
11 June 2025, University of Copenhagen: Keynote speaker MD and associate professor Rishi Goyal, Columbia University, on medical and health humanities in education programmes.
Lecture: "Narrative medicine - How studying literary fiction and creative writing can contribute to healthcare professionals education and the rehabilitation of chronically ill people.”
25 September 2018, University of Copenhagen. Lecture by Anders Juhl Rasmussen with English subtitles.
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Høeg, Tine | External | +4535335433 | |
| Kjær, Michael | Clinical Professor | +4538635055 | |
| Knox, Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard | Senior Researcher | +4535337334 | |
| Nilsson, Charlotte Juul | Associate Professor | +4535327122 | |
| Rasmussen, Anders Juhl | Associate Professor | +4535335416 |
| Navn | Titel | Telefon | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodemann, Morten | Clinical professor, University of Southern Denmark | +4560111923 | |
| Nielsen, Anette Søgaard | Professor, University of Southern Denmark | +4565503671 | |
| Bernhardsson, Katarina | Lecturer, Lund University, Sweden | +45462228466 | |
| Goyal, Rishi | Clinical lecturer, Columbia University, USA | ||
| Nielsen, Henriette Svarre | Clinical professor, Hvidovre Hospital | ||
| Madsen, Svend Aage | Research director, Rigshospitalet |
