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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Sandra P.

Contributor:

Pollio, Howard R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurse and patient.

Existentialism.

Interpersonal communication.

Patients--Counseling of.

Patients.

Nursing--Philosophy.

Nursing.

Nurse-Patient Relations.

Attitude to Health.

Patients--psychology.

Philosophy, Nursing.

Medical Subjects:

Nurse-Patient Relations.

Attitude to Health.

Existentialism.

Patients--psychology.

Philosophy, Nursing.

Physical Description:

xiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

I. Phenomenology and Nursing

1. The Patient, the Nurse, and the Philosopher: Seeing Rose Through the Eyes of Merleau-Ponty 3

2. If a Lion Could Talk: Phenomenological Interviewing and Interpretation 20

II. Nursing and the Human Experience of the Human Body

3. The Human Experience of the Human Body 51

4. "It's Like Getting Kicked by a Mule": Living With an Implanted Defibrillator 62

5. "Now It's Me and This Pain": Living With Chronic Pain 73

III. Nursing and the Human Experience of Other People

6. The Human Experience of the World of Others 97

7. "We All Became Diabetics": The Experience of Living With a Diabetic Sibling 109

8. "Walking in the Dark": The Experience of Living With a Daughter Who Has an Eating Disorder 124

9. "She Became an Alien": The Father's Experience of Living With Postpartum Depression 140

IV. Nursing and the Human Experience of Time

10. The Human Experience of Time 153

11. "One Day You're Working and the Next Day You're an Invalid": Recovering After a Stroke 163

12. "The Point of No Return": Formerly Abused Women's Experience of Staying Out of the Abusive Relationship 177

13. "It Was the Dark Night of the Soul": Wresting Meaning From a Time of Spiritual Distress 190

V. Nursing and the Human Experience of the World

14. The Human Experience of the Non-Human World 205

15. "Eventually It'll Be Over": The Dialectic Between Confinement and Freedom in the World of the Hospitalized Patient 214

16. "Like a Bunch of Cattle": The Patient's Experience of the Outpatient Health Care Environment 237.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0826114660

OCLC:

46928686