The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
  • Spring 2013
    • Letter from the Editors
    • Poetry>
      • My Grandpa
      • Zodiac
      • Bypass
      • The Man from Sierra Leone
      • Overwhelmed
      • Survivors
      • Metastatic
      • The Waiting
      • Maroon
      • In and Out
      • In the Womb
      • Room 915
      • Cut it Out
    • Fiction>
      • Burr's Sore
      • Shelter
      • Blindfolded and Immutable
    • Studio Art>
      • Root Canal
      • Elmer
      • Canyon
      • Dream of Lost Opportunity
    • Academic>
      • Revisiting Written Submissions as Part of the Medical School Application: Paying Attention to Narrative Competence in Admissions Policies
      • Health Narratives and Healing
      • Meanings in Motion
      • Truth Disclosure in Medical Settings
      • Dithering
      • Referral, No Referral
      • Narratives of Medical Miniatures
    • Non-Fiction>
      • Ganpati's Garden
      • The Note
      • Anonymous
      • 32 New Words
      • See No Evil
      • Communion
      • Of Birds and Mice
      • Swan Dive
      • Cura Personalis: Notes from a Medical Scribe
      • Witnessing Myself
    • Field Notes>
      • Picturing Diagnosis
      • The Lady in Pink
      • How Quickly Do We Forget
      • The Quietest Thing
      • Over the Summer
      • Nails
    • Spring '13 Contributors
  • The Intima Channel
    • Since November
    • Terry Tracy Interview
    • Now We Take This Feeble Body
    • Captain O'Kane
    • Translate
    • Suggest an Artist!
  • Crossroads
  • About Us
    • Mission & Vision
    • The Editors
    • Contributor Index
    • Advisory Board
  • Submissions
    • Guidelines
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  • Archives
    • Fall 2011>
      • Poetry>
        • Apachetas
        • Emergency Room Curtains
        • Mi Jardin / My Garden
        • Nursing the Same Wound
        • Want, Change
        • When He Found Out...
      • Fiction>
        • RED HANDED
        • In Their Hearts
        • Nightwatch
      • Non-Fiction>
        • On Call
        • Cigarette
      • Academic>
        • Bodily Prisons
        • Media Analysis: "My Brother Has Autism"
        • Medicine and Cultural Competency
      • Field Notes: Reflecting on the experience & process of Narrative Medicine >
        • Approaching New Horizons
        • My Year in Narrative Medicine
        • VOICES
      • Studio Art>
        • Nikita at the Gates
    • Spring 2012>
      • The Appearance of Choice
      • Board Games
      • Concierge Medicine
      • Sciatica Sucks
      • Unplanned Cesarean Sections
      • A Great Place for a Seizure
    • Fall 2012>
      • Letter from the Editors
      • Poetry>
        • I Don't Feel the Same Anymore
        • Meningioma
        • Physician Bears Witness
        • Cartographer
        • The Gurney
        • Lament of Cancer
        • Diary of Psychiatric Meds
      • Fiction>
        • A Bird in the Hand
        • The Lethal Joke
        • Make Me Whole
      • Non-Fiction>
        • The Lilac House
        • Stark like Alex Katz
        • Poetic Therapy
        • Dextrocardia
        • Little Nowhere of Mind
        • Following You, Together in Cancer
        • Loca
        • Graduations
        • Tangible Evidence
        • Journey through the Forest
        • Ms. Johnson
        • Emergency Care
        • Miss July
        • On Call
      • Field Notes>
        • Discovering a patient
        • A Spanish Lesson
        • The Things I Learned about Myself on my Surgery Clerkship
        • Too Close to Home
        • What Happens Next?
      • Academic>
        • Narrative Art and the Doctor Patient Relationship
        • Esther-Other
        • Psychedelics in Psychotherapy
        • Aberrant Decoding
        • Professionalism of Medical Students
        • Alice Walker's Meridian
      • Studio Art>
        • Tangible Evidence
        • PRN Tinged
  • Contact

Academic

Bodily Prisons: A Look at Illness in Dickens’ Little Dorrit  by Sneha Mantri

Bodily Prisons is an extension of Arthur Frank's narrative theory to explicate the use of illness in Little Dorrit.

Media Analysis: " My Brother Has Autism"  by Jennifer Adaeze Anyaegbunam

An analysis of storytelling and narrative strategy employed by a Disney Channel public service announcement.

Medicine and Cultural Competency: What Anthropology Can Teach Us  by Nita (Bhavnit) Bhatia

With professionals acknowledging the increasing importance of cultural competency in health care settings, anthropological frameworks help us understand how to exercise such competency with individuals without essentializing cultural groups.






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