title: Fictional father?: Oliver Sacks and the revalidation of pathography.
abstract: This paper is a revalidation of Oliver Sacks's role in the development of medicine's narrative turn and, as such, a reinterpretation of the history of narrative in medicine. It suggests that, from the late 1960s, Sacks pioneered in his 'Romantic Science' a new medical mode that reunited the seemingly incommensurable art and science of medicine while also offering a way for medical humanities to shape clinical reasoning more effectively.
authors.forename: Andrew John
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hull
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006809:Humanities / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration / Q000266:history*; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*