| Giving Comfort and Inflicting Pain Contributor(s): Madjar, Irena (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598742841 ISBN-13: 9781598742848 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: Nursing and health care workers are typically associated with healing and relieving painbut the pain they inflict in the course of everyday treatments is rarely acknowledged. This phenomenological study investigates the lived experience of patients in pain and of the professionals who inflict pain in the context of medically prescribed treatments. Through in-depth qualitative studies of cancer patients and burn victims, Madjar explores meanings and perceptions of pain, the nature of patients and providers embodied experience, and understandings of self and other. She also highlights the need for health-care curricula to incorporate phenomenological perspectives on human experience and on the role health care professionals play in the generation, prevention, and relief of pain. An important contribution to nursing, health care fields, and the social science of medicine, Giving Comfort and Inflicting Pain is also an exemplar in qualitative methodology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Nursing - Social, Ethical & Legal Issues - Medical | Nursing - Research & Theory |
| Dewey: 616.047 |
| Series: International Institute for Qualitative Methodology |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.76" W x 8.66" (0.79 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 clinically inflicted pain is ignored, overlooked, or treated with detachment are presented. The study also points the way toward nursing practice that is guided by thoughtfulness and sensitivity to patients1 lived experience and an awareness of the freedom and responsibility inherent in nursing actions, including those involved in inflicting and relieving pain. Questions are raised about nurses1 knowledge, attitudes, and actions in relation to clinically inflicted pain. The study highlights the need for nursing education and practice to consider the contribution of a phenomenological perspective to the understanding of the human experience of pain and the nursing role in its generation, prevention, and relief. |