Meaning in suffering: caring practices in the health professions
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| Summary: | Annotation Compelling, timely, and essential reading for healthcare providers,Meaning in Sufferingaddresses 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 healand stay humanein the face of suffering. Winner, Nursing Research Category,American Journal of Nursing Meaning in suffering : a patchwork remembering / Kathryn H. Kavanagh -- The gift of suffering / Ingrid Harris -- Finding meaning in adversity / Nancy E. Johnston -- Narrative phenomenology : exploring stories of grief and dying / Craig M. Klugman -- Wish fulfillment for children with life-threatening illnesses / Bonnie Ewing -- Moral meanings of caring for the dying / Shelley Raffin Bouchal. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record Description based on print version record Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 0299222535 |