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Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002 by Choice!
Thomas and Pollio, authors of numerous publications, have written a must-read book for nurses and other health care providers who want to understand and engage in the human experiences of patients. The authors provide wonderful insights for students, researchers, and clinicians into the world of existential phenomenology and share, through the use of this research methodological approach, the personal stories of patients as they lived their experiences. As thought-provoking as the research examples are, the chapters explaining philosophy and methods of existential phenomenology are essential reading for all nursing students...Thomas and Pollio write clearly and simply without the usual academic jargon, a welcome change for college students, clinicians, and researchers alike. This book fills a void in the nursing research literature and will be welcome to nursing researchers, practitioners, and lower-division undergraduates through graduate students.
--CHOICE
This book fills not only a gap but a wide cavern....I can not think of a better way for neophyte nurses to engage the human experiences and perspectives of their patients, nor can I think of a more relevant and comprehensive explanation of the philosophy and methods of existential phenomenology for seasoned researchers, scientists, and theoreticians."--Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud, PhD, RN, FAAN, UCLA School of Nursing
While addressing a wide readership, this book focuses particularly on the nurse clinician and student, demonstrating how a humanistic philosophy and research methodology has the potential to illuminate the deeper meanings of health crises and universal human experiences like pain and spiritual distress.
- Preface
- The Patient, the Nurse, and the Philosopher: Seeing Rose Through the Eyes of Merleau-Ponty
- If a Lion Could Talk: Phenomenological Interviewing and Interpretation
- The Human Experience of the Human Body
- "It's Like Getting Kicked by a Mule": Living With an Implanted Defibrillator
- "Now It's Me and This Pain": Living With Chronic Pain
- The Human Experience of the World of Others
- "We All Became Diabetics": The Experience of Living With a Diabetic Sibling
- "Walking in the Dark": The Experience of Living With a Daughter Who Has an Eating Disorder
- "She Became an Alien": The Father's Experience of Living with Postpartum Depression
- The Human Experience of Time
- "One Day You're Working and the Next Day You're an Invalid": Recovering After a Stroke
- "The Point of No Return": Formerly Abused Women's Experience of Staying Out of the Abusive Relationship
- "It Was the Dark Night of the Soul": Wresting Meaning From a Time of Spiritual Distress
- The Human Experience of the non-Human World
- "Eventually It'll Be Over": The Dialectic Between Confinement and Freedom in the World of the Hospitalized Patient
- "Like a Bunch of Cattle": The Patient's Experience of the Outpatient Health Care Environment
Acknowledgments
I. Phenomenology and Nursing
II. Nursing and the Human Experience of the Human Body
III. Nursing and the Human Experience of Other People
IV. Nursing and the Human Experience of Time
V. Nursing and the Human Experience of the World
Epilogue
References
Index