As many families gather for Thanksgiving this week, Health Affairs Blog would like to take this opportunity to highlight the poignant new Narrative Matters’ essay “Dad’s Legacy” [free access] in the November/December 2007 issue of Health Affairs.
 
“If a picture is worth one thousand words, a good story is worth many columns of statistics,” wrote the […]

The Johns Hopkins University Press has just published Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy, an anthology of articles from the popular Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs. I can’t review the book in good conscience since, along with my colleagues Ellen Ficklen and Kyna Rubin, I have served as editor […]