Medical Humanities, Sociology and the Suffering Self - Surviving Health (Hardcover)

Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe makes a compelling argument for how the medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and properties of suffering and what is at stake. Lowe demonstrates through analysis of major healthcare workforce issues and incidence of burnout how key policies and practices influence healthcare education and experiences of both patients and health professionals. By including first person narratives from health professionals as a tool and resource, she illustrates how dominant ideas about the self enter practice as a refusal of suffering. Demonstrating the relationship between personal experience, theory and research, Lowe argues for a pedagogy of suffering that shows how the moral anguish implicit in suffering is an ethical response of the emergent self. This is an important read for all those interested in medical humanities, health professional education, person-centred care and the sociology of health and illness.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Wendy Lowe
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	314
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-32141-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with disability Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
LSN:	0-367-32141-6
Barcode:	9780367321413

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