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Meaning in Suffering: Caring Practices in the Health Professions (Interpretive Studies in Healthcare)
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Description for Meaning in Suffering: Caring Practices in the Health Professions (Interpretive Studies in Healthcare)
Hardcover. Addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing, this title offers insights into suffering as a human condition experienced by persons deserving of dignity, empathy, and understanding. Editor(s): Johnston, Nancy; Scholler-Jaquish, Alwilda; Diekelmann, Nancy L.; Ironside, Pamela M. Series: Interpretive Studies in Healthcare & the Human Sciences. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MBP; MQCW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 535.
Compelling, timely, and essential reading for healthcare providers, ""Meaning in Suffering"" addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing that is both methodologically rigorous and accessible, the contributors preserve first-hand experiences using narrative ethnography, existential hermeneutics, hermeneutic phenomenology, and traditional ethnography. They offer nuanced insights into suffering as a human condition experienced by persons deserving of dignity, empathy, and understanding. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that understanding the suffering of the ""other"" reveals something vital about the moral courage required to heal - and stay humane ... Read more
Compelling, timely, and essential reading for healthcare providers, ""Meaning in Suffering"" addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing that is both methodologically rigorous and accessible, the contributors preserve first-hand experiences using narrative ethnography, existential hermeneutics, hermeneutic phenomenology, and traditional ethnography. They offer nuanced insights into suffering as a human condition experienced by persons deserving of dignity, empathy, and understanding. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that understanding the suffering of the ""other"" reveals something vital about the moral courage required to heal - and stay humane ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Interpretive Studies in Healthcare & the Human Sciences
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299222505
SKU
V9780299222505
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About
Nancy Johnston, Ph.D., RN, is associate professor of nursing at York University, Toronto, Canada. Alwilda Scholler-Jaquish, Ph.D., APRN, is associate professor of nursing at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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