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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782674703321

Autore

Thomas Sandra P

Titolo

Listening to patients : a phenomenological approach to nursing research and practice / / Sandra P. Thomas, Howard R. Pollio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Springer Pub. Co., , 2002

©2002

ISBN

0-8261-9719-1

1-281-80647-1

9786611806477

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

PollioHoward R

Disciplina

610.730699

Soggetti

Nurse and patient

Existentialism

Interpersonal communication

Patients - Counseling of

Nursing - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259 - 283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""I. Phenomenology and Nursing""; ""1. The Patient, the Nurse, and the Philosopher: Seeing Rose Through the Eyes of Merleau-Ponty""; ""2. If a Lion Could Talk: Phenomenological Interviewing and Interpretation""; ""II. Nursing and the Human Experience of the Human Body""; ""3. The Human Experience of the Human Body""; ""4. ""It's Like Getting Kicked by a Mule"": Living With an Implanted Defibrillator""; ""5. ""Now It's Me and This Pain"": Living With Chronic Pain""; ""III. Nursing and the Human Experience of Other People""

""6. The Human Experience of the World of Others""""7. ""We All Became Diabetics"": The Experience of Living With a Diabetic Sibling""; ""8. ""Walking in the Dark"": The Experience of Living With a Daughter Who Has an Eating Disorder""; ""9. ""She Became an Alien"": The Father's Experience of Living With Postpartum Depression""; ""IV. Nursing and the Human Experience of Time""; ""10. The Human Experience of Time""; ""11. ""One Day You're Working and the Next Day You're an



Invalid"": Recovering After a Stroke""

""12. ""The Point of No Return"": Formerly Abused Women's Experience of Staying Out of the Abusive Relationship""""13. ""It Was the Dark Night of the Soul"": Wresting Meaning From a Time of Spiritual Distress""; ""V. Nursing and the Human Experience of the World""; ""14. The Human Experience of the Non-Human World""; ""15. ""Eventually It'll Be Over"": The Dialectic Between Confinement and Freedom in the World of the Hospitalized Patient""; ""16. ""Like a Bunch of Cattle"": The Patient's Experience of the Outpatient Health Care Environment""; ""Epilogue""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

""This book fills not only a gap but a wide cavern....I can not think of a better way for neophyte nurses to engage the human experiences and perspectives of their patients, nor can I think of a more relevant and comprehensive explanation of the philosophy and methods of existential phenomenology for seasoned researchers, scientists, and theoreticians.""--Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud, PhD, RN, FAAN, UCLA School of Nursing  While addressing a wide readership, this book focuses particularly on the nurse clinician and student, demonstrating how a humanistic philosophy and research methodology has the