Yumi Kagawa

Biographic Data

ID10043116
NAMEYumi Kagawa
GIVEN NAMESYumi
FAMILY NAMEKagawa
SIGNATUREKAGAWA Y
AFFILIATIONSIwate Medical University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The curse of knowledge in medical communication

    Open AccessTsuyoshi Okuhara, Hiroko Okada et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2026

    The curse of knowledge—the difficulty of imagining what it is like not to know something once one knows it—is a well-documented cognitive bias, yet it has rarely been applied to clinical communication. This paper proposes it as an upstream mechanism linking three domains often treated as separate: health literacy, epistemic injustice, and medical invalidation. Using a narrative synthesis across multiple scholarly traditions, we argue that clinici…

  • Redefining health communication through narrative intersection

    Open AccessTsuyoshi Okuhara, Hiroko Okada et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2025

    We aimed to propose a new conceptualization of health communication that mitigates the limitations of traditional one-way models by introducing a relational, narrative-based approach that emphasizes mutual understanding. This paper critiques existing definitions and proposes an alternative framework by reviewing interdisciplinary literature on Narrative Medicine, narrative identity theory, and health communication research. The paper introduces “…