Narrative Medicine
Interdisciplinary research and education
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:
- How can we enhance healthcare professionals’ competence to reflect on and understand patients’ challenges with their health?
- How can we strengthen patients’ abilities to manage their own health challenges?
- How can we contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between human beings, health, and society through analyses of, among other things, literature?
- Component in elective course for Medicine (Master’s level) "Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine – The Physician’s Role Illuminated through Literature and Film". Course responsible: Michael Kjær.
- Component in elective course for Medicine (Master’s level) "Gerontology". Course responsible: Charlotte Juul Nilsson.
- Elective course for Danish (Master’s level) "Literature and Health". Course responsible: Anders Juhl Rasmussen.
- Continuing education courses in the Danish Medical Association. Course responsible: Anders Juhl Rasmussen and Morten Sodemann.
- Continuing education courses in the Capital Region of Denmark. Course responsible: Anders Juhl Rasmussen and Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox.
- Creative reading and writing workshop for people with alcohol dependency and overweight at risk of developing liver disease.
- Creative writing workshop for people in rehabilitation after cancer illness.
- Creative writing workshop for people with an eating disorder.
- Creative writing workshop for people undergoing fertility treatment.
Anthologies
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.
Book chapters
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]
Journal articles
Rasmussen, A.J. “To be Able to Live Among the Deads. Parody and Empathy in Harald Voetmann’s Amduat. An Oxygen Machine”. Journal of Research in Sickness and Society, special issue “Next of kin” [in progress]
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.
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.
- Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities, Lund’s University.
- Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University.
- Nordic Network for Narratives in Medicine.
- CHCI Medical and Health Humanities Network.
- Narrative Medicine International.
- Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities (CoRe), SAXO, UCPH
- Centre for Culture and the Mind, ENGEROM, UCPH
Researchers
Internal
| 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 |
External
| 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 |
