Meaning in Suffering: Caring Practices in the Health Professions

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.

Author: Nancy Johnston, Theodore J. Karamanski
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.18w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780299222543

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 09/01/2007 pg. 3