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Patricia Benner's introduction to phenomenology develops the reader's understanding of the strategies and processes involved in this innovative approach to nursing. The author discusses the relationship between theory and practice, considers the possibility of a science of caring from a feminist perspective, introduces interpretive phenomenology to the study of natural groups such as families, and suggests a basis for developing nursing ethics that is true to the caring and healing practices of the nursing profession.
The Ethics of Ambiguity and Concealment around Cancer: Interpretations Through a Local Italian World
The Ethics of Ambiguity and Concealment around Cancer: Interpretations Through a Local Italian World
Between the conscious and the unconscious lies the most critical domain of all for historical anthropology…. It is the realm of partial recognition, of inchoate awareness, of ambiguous perception, and sometimes of creative tension: that liminal space of human experience in which people discern acts and facts but cannot or do not order them into narrative descriptions, or even into articulate conceptions of the world; in which signs and events are observed, but in a hazy, translucent light; in which individuals or groups know that something is happening to them, but find it difficult to put their ...
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