tailieunhanh - NARRATIVE MATTERS: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good story is worth many columns of statistics. Stories present ideas, conflicts, and, sometimes, resolution. They have depth and dimension, drama and emotion, making them more memorable than data alone. This belief in the power of the story encouraged us—with support from the Kellogg Foundation—to start the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs in 1999. | The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy I NARRATIVE MATTERS Edited by Fitzhugh Mullan . Ellen Ficklen and Kyna Rubin Foreword by Abraham Verghese . NARRATIVE MATTERS A Health Affairs .