Charon, Rita

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Charon, Rita
Date of birth
1949-07-28
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 2797769
Wikidata: Q7336489
Library of congress: n 85015539
HAI10: 000068125
Sources of Information
  • To be a doctor [VR] c1980:credit frame (Rita Charon, MD)
  • NLM files, 3/22/85(hdg.: Charon, Rita)
  • Stories matter, 2002:CIP t.p. (Rita Charon) data sheet (b. July 28, 1949)
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Wikipedia description:

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. She currently practices as a general internist at the Associates in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, 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 and co-editor of Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics and Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine.

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