This is a workbook for health professionals working with diabetic patients. It is based on the experiences of one group of health care workers in an inner city area. It illustrates how using individual patients' stories can inform and help health care workers to understand and manage their patients' difficulties better. In this way it has similar aims to the narrative based medicine books. It also provides the interactive learning element with suggested learning objectives, assignments and further reading in each unit.

Greenhalgh, author of 'How to Read a Paper', presents a unique and new approach to the management of disease through the lens of real life problems. She challenges old concepts of primary care and provides up-to-date patient focused methodology.

Based on the very successful Narrative Based Medicine conference in September 2001. The editors have selected topics around the best sessions and will invite new chapters, not just the papers from the conference. The book is designed to explore the theoretical issues of narrative applied to health care, and how they impact on the practice of medicine and applied social sciences. The book will show how the new approach is more indepth than traditional history taking, placing the individual's story in wider social and ethical contexts. This will be an internationally contributed book and will...

This is published in association with the Nuffield Trust. There is a foreword By Sir Kenneth Calman Vice Chancellor, Durham University and former Chief Medical Officer. 'Excellent. The book's] analytical and methodological approach is invaluable. It is a real privilege to listen to the stories of patients and their families, to hear details of personal events, comedies and tragedies, and to use the skills of listening and interpreting to make sense of the story. I have written elsewhere that the history of medicine is simply the re-classification of disease. Here are some new ways of...