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Suffering Narratives of Older Adults - A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care (Paperback)
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Suffering Narratives of Older Adults - A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
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In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta
Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic
psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of
the deep structure of the suffering experience. She draws upon the
notion of maternal holding to develop an original construct of
maternal affordances - the ground of possibility for human
development, agency and relational practices. The conceptual
analysis is based on the life narratives of several elders
receiving chronic care in facility environments. Creating new
fields of communication for patients, their family members and
health professionals in processes of reflection and shared decision
making, this book builds on knowledge about suffering to help guide
ethical action in preventing and relieving chronic pain and
improving systems of care. It offers a phenomenological approach to
understanding the maternal as a primary domain of moral experience
in serious illness and suffering, and implications for policy,
practice and research. A series of applied chapters, looking at
individual experiences of suffering and care experiences, present
critical areas of ethical inquiry, including: pain and suffering
maternal relational ethics evaluation and moral deliberation about
care options decision-making and moral agency end-of-life
experiences of care. Exploring how an ecological relational
perspective grounded in phenomenology may provide fruitful
alternatives to traditional frameworks in bioethics, this is an
important contribution to the ongoing development of an ecological
ethic of care. It will be of interest to scholars and students of
bioethics and phenomenological methods in the health and human
services, as well as practitioners in the field.
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