254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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This phenomenological study describes the lived experience of pain inflicted in the context of medically prescribed treatment, and it explores the meanings of such pain for patients who endured it and for nurses whose actions contributed to its generation. Thus, it presents a thematic description of the phenomenon of clinically inflicted pain. The dangers for both patients and nurses when... Read more
Chapter 1 The Problem of Pain; Chapter 2 The Case for Phenomenology in the Study of Human Embodiment and Pain; Chapter 3 Placing the Experience of Inflicted Pain in Context: The Impact of Illness and Injury on the Embodied Self; Chapter 4 The Phenomenon of Clinically Inflicted Pain: Essential Themes; Chapter 5 The Lifeworld Of Inflicted Pain: Patients’ Perceptions Of Others, Pain, And Self; Chapter 6 Inflicting And Relieving Pain: The Lifeworld Of Nursing Practice; Chapter 7 Clinically Inflicted Pain And Nursing Practice;
Biography
Madjar, Irena
"This book is to be recommended as a useful and important source of reference on pain and its management to all health care professionals.. The findings and discussion within this book provide an important and valuable contribution to the literature on pain from the lived experience of patients. " - Journal of Advanced Nursing
