Sonny's Blues
How James Baldwin's short story helped a doctor and her patient break down the divisions of class, age and race.
How James Baldwin's short story helped a doctor and her patient break down the divisions of class, age and race.
This is part one of The Essay's five-part series, Narrative Medicine - a term coined to describe the capacity to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by stories of illness. Simply - it's medicine practised by someone who knows what to do with stories. Part of the 麻豆社's NHS at 70 season.
Warning: this episode deals with serious medical issues and trauma.
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