This book is dedicated to Fitzhugh Mullan, 1942–2019.
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Foreword copyright © 2019 by Abraham Verghese. All rights reserved. Reprinted by arrangement with Mary Evans Inc.
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This book was published in a first edition as Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy, edited by Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, Ellen Ficklen, and Kyna Rubin (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bylander, Jessica, editor.
Title: Narrative matters : writing to change the health care system / edited by Jessica Bylander, senior editor, Health Affairs; foreword by Abraham Verghese, MD.
Description: Second edition. | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019029985 | ISBN 9781421437521 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781421437545 (paperback) | ISBN 9781421437552 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Medical policy. | Narrative medicine.
Classification: LCC RA393 .N37 2020 | DDC 362.1—dc23
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