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Rita Charon (born 1949 in Providence, Rhode Island), is a physician, literary scholar and the Founder and Executive Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.〔The Program in Narrative Medicine, (), College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University , 19 September 2012〕 She currently practices as a general internist at the Associates in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital,〔Physician Detail, () New York-Presbyterian, 19 September 2012〕 and is a professor of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Charon is the author of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness〔Rita Charon, (), Oxford University Press, December 2007〕 and co-editor of Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics〔Rita Charon and Martha Montello, (), Routledge, 14 June 2002〕 and Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine.〔Rita Charon and Peter L. Rudnytsky, (), SUNY Press, January 2008〕 ==Biography== Charon was born in Providence, Rhode Island and credits her father, a physician serving the French-Canadian population there, as her inspiration to go into medicine.〔Changing the Face of Medicine, (), National Library of Medicine, 19 September 2012〕 She graduated with a B.A. in biology and child education from the Experimental College of Fordham University in 1970, and after working as a teacher and peace activist, attended Harvard Medical School from 1974 to 1978. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York.〔Alma Dea Morani Renaissance Woman Award, (), Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine, 19 September 2012〕 Dr. Charon began teaching at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1982 and was appointed full professor in 2001. She also completed a doctorate in English from Columbia University in 1999, focusing her studies on the writing of Henry James and the role of literature in medicine. In 2000, she founded the Program in Narrative Medicine〔http://www.narrativemedicine.org〕 at Columbia, which launched the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine,〔http://ce.columbia.edu/narrative-medicine〕 the first graduate program of its kind, in 2009. She currently directs the Narrative Medicine curriculum for Columbia Medical School and teaches literature, narrative ethics, and life-telling, both in the medical center and to students in the Narrative Medicine master’s degree program. She has published and lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, on the ways in which narrative training helps to increase empathy and reflection in health professionals and students. Her literary scholarship focuses on the novels and tales of Henry James. Her research projects center on the outcomes of training health care professionals in narrative competence and the development of narrative clinical routines to increase the capacity for clinical recognition in medical practice. Dr. Charon’s research is supported by the NIH, the NEH, the Veterans Administration, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, and several other private foundations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rita Charon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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