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Meaning in Suffering Caring Practices in the Health Professions, Volume 6 Edited by Nancy Johnston and Alwilda Scholler-Jaquish Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences Volume six in the award-winning healthcare series Compelling, timely, and essential reading for healthcare providers, Meaning in Suffering addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing that is both methodologically rigorous and accessible, the contributors preserve first-hand experiences using narrative ethnography, existential hermeneutics, hermeneutic phenomenology, and traditional ethnography. They offer nuanced insights into suffering as a human condition experienced by persons deserving of dignity, empathy, and understanding. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that understanding the suffering of the "other" reveals something vital about the moral courage required to heal-and stay humane-in the face of suffering. Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences Nancy L. Diekelmann and Pamela M. Ironside, Series Editors Nancy Johnston, Ph.D., RN, is associate professor of nursing at York University, Toronto, Canada. Alwilda Scholler-Jaquish, Ph.D., APRN, is associate professor of nursing at the University of Nevada, Reno. For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu Of related interest, from the Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences series: First, Do No Harm Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare, Volume 1 Edited by Nancy L. Diekelmann Awarded the 2003 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year, Public Interest and Creative Works Teaching the Practitioners of Care New Pedagogies for the Health Professions, Volume 2 Edited by Nancy L. Diekelmann Many Voices Toward Caring Culture in Healthcare and Healing, Volume 3 Edited by Kathryn H. Kavanagh and Virginia Knowlden Awarded the 2004 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year, Nursing Education and Continuing Education. Beyond Method Philosophical Conversations in Healthcare Research and Scholarship, Volume 4 Edited by Pamela M. Ironside Listening to the Whispers Re-thinking Ethics in Healthcare, Volume 5 Edited by Christine Sorrell Dinkins and Jeanne Merkle Sorrell

June 2007 LC: 2006031772 BF 320 pp.  6 x 9 The cloth edition for this title, 978-0-299-22250-5, is out of print. Paper $28.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-22254-3 e-book $14.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-22253-6   Adobe Digital Edition (PDF) About our e-books Printing and cut/paste allowed, access on six different devices. ADD TO CART       Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature.

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