Meaning in Suffering: Caring Practices in the Health Professions

Contributors

Contributors Shelley Raffin Bouchal, RN, PhD, CHPCN©, is a nurse with certification and research interests in palliative care and ethics. Currently she is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary. Prior to becoming a professor she practiced as a clinical nurse specialist in a hospice. Her current teaching is focused in the areas of qualitative research, adult health and illness , palliative care, and ethics with undergraduate and graduate students. Her current research and scholarly writing focuses on palliative care professionals, spirituality, and ethics. Currently she is coauthoring a book on Canadian nursing ethics intended for undergraduate students. She finds interdisciplinary research with other palliative care professionals to be most engaging and applicable to practice. Bonnie Ewing, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, where she obtained a master’s degree in community health nursing and a PhD. She has been a maternal child health nursing administrator and has taught obstetrics, pediatrics, and community nursing. She cofounded a chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Suffolk County, New York, where she assisted with the fulfillment of wishes for children with lifethreatening illnesses. Presently, Dr. Ewing is teaching nursing administration, health promotion, and disease prevention. Nancy E. Johnston, RN, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Nursing at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her current teaching is focused in the undergraduate and graduate areas of qualitative research, mental health, leadership, and global health. Her research interests include suffering, social exclusion , resilience, and the recovery of meaning in the face of adversity and loss. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities she works with community health centers to expand outreach activities and develop programming of relevance to immigrants and other marginalized and racialized groups. 277 278 Contributors Ingrid Harris, PhD, received her doctorate in philosophy from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where she taught courses in existentialism , contemporary continental philosophy, and business ethics. She studied hermeneutics, phenomenology, and existentialism with G.B. Madison. She received her BA (Hon.) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and completed her master’s program at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia . Dr Harris’s published work includes Is There a Canadian Philosophy? Reflections on the Canadian Identity (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2000), coauthored with G.B. Madison and Paul Fairfield. Her current interests include philosophy of religion and theology. Kathryn H. Kavanagh, BSN, MS, MA, PhD, is a medical anthropologist who has taught for many years in both nursing and anthropology. Her primary interests are health and healing across cultures. After conducting a series of summer field schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Kathy taught for Northern Arizona University on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations. She currently teaches courses in medical anthropology, indigenous healing traditions, American Indian cultures, and the anthropology of foodways in the Baltimore area. Widely published in cultural aspects of health and healthcare, she continues to write on various diversity-related topics. Craig M. Klugman, PhD, received his BA with Honors from Stanford University , his MAs in medical anthropology and bioethics from Case Western Reserve University, and his doctorate in medical humanities from the University of Texas Medical Branch. Originally trained as a science journalist, he now teaches at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he chairs the Program in Health Care Ethics. He teaches courses in medical ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, and medical humanities. His current research examines teaching and ethics, bioethics rhetoric, ethics and politics, rural bioethics, and ethics and economics. ...