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- Meaning in Suffering: Caring Practices in the Health Professions
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences
summary
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—in the face of suffering.
Winner, Nursing Research Category, American Journal of Nursing
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. 3-6
- 2: The Gift of Suffering
- pp. 60-97
- 3: Finding Meaning in Adversity
- pp. 98-143
- 6: Moral Meanings of Caring for the Dying
- pp. 232-275
- Contributors
- pp. 277-278
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299222536
Related ISBN(s)
9780299222505, 9780299222543
MARC Record
OCLC
318240515
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2007