Giving Comfort and Inflicting Pain

This phenomenological study investigates the lived experience of cancer and burn patients in pain and of the professionals who inflict pain in the context of medically prescribed treatments.

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

This phenomenological study investigates the lived experience of cancer and burn patients in pain and of the professionals who inflict pain in the context of medically prescribed treatments.

Product details

• Authors: Irena Madjar
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781598742848
• ISBN: 978-1-59874-284-8
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: Farb., s/w. Abb.
• Series: International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General