1st Edition
Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care Around Recovery
By Stephen Buetow
Copyright 2021
182 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience. Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care is a fascinating contribution to the multidisciplinary literature on person-centred health care, pain and ethics.
Traditionally, Western intellectual culture has downplayed the... Read more
1.Introduction Part I-The need for change 2.Disenchantment with current pain management 3.Clinicians come second Part II-Person-centredness, meaning and unpleasantness 4.Person-centred health care and pain 5.Pain and meaning 6.Pain and (un)pleasantness Part III- Moving forward 7.Around pain: Constructing fuzzy realities 8.Through pain: Bearing its load 9.Into pain: Surfing the wave of enlivenment 10.Above pain: Flying with Air transcendence 11.Implications for pain management
Biography
Stephen Buetow is Associate Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
