Meaning in Suffering: Caring Practices in the Health Professions Volume 6

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299222543
• ISBN13: 9780299222543
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"