Giving Comfort and Inflicting Pain

List of contents

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;

About the author

Madjar, Irena

Summary

Nursing and health care workers are typically associated with healing and relieving pain. This work investigates the experience of patients in pain and of the professionals who inflict pain in the context of medically prescribed treatments. It explores meanings and perceptions of pain, the nature of patients' and providers' embodied experience.

Product details

• Authors: Irena Madjar, Madjar Irena
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138403499
• ISBN: 978-1-138-40349-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General