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By Rita Charon. 266 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-516675-2.

An exercise in the trendy 1979 art manual Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain had the would-be artist copy a Picasso drawing of Igor Stravinsky that was printed upside down. The results were remarkable: a far more faithful rendition than the untalented could produce by transcribing the image right side up. The inversion forced readers to look at the picture in a new way, leading them to take the drawing on its own terms, to follow its own unique lines rather than try to assimilate them into an unconscious (or conscious) prototype.

In a sense, Narrative Medicine proposes . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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