Suffering Narratives of Older Adults: A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care

ISBN-13: 9780415854795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 178 str.

Mary Beth Morrissey

Opis

This text exploits the power of phenomenological methods to access and describe lived moral experiences of patients and their families, their fundamentally social nature, and the genetic, social and developmental origins of relational agency, suffering and decision making.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Dialectics of Suffering and Maternal Care-Seeking in Serious Illness  2. The Narrative of Angelique: Maternal Affordances in Suffering  3. The Social Ecology of Suffering in Serious Illness: Loss of Maternal Foundations  4. Suffering and Care-Seeking as Moral Experience: The Movement Toward Self-Actualizing and Spiritual Well-Being  5. The Narrative of Camila: Enacting and Reenacting Cultural Meanings of Faith and Fidelity  6. Living in Community: The Gifts of Grapes and Maternal Grace  7. Seriously Ill Older Adult Men in Recovery: Maternal Care Facilities  8. A Call for Broader Social Care Provision: A Maternal Turn in Ethics of Care

O autorze

Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey, PhD, MPH, JD, is a Fellow of the Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center, and the Program Director of the Post-Masters Healthcare Management Certificate Program in Public Health, Palliative Care and Long-Term Care, Fordham Schools of Business, New York, USA.