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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"dying and death"”.
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UK family members’ experience of a relative’s dying and death in the context of a desired, but unrealised, assisted death: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Background: Assisted dying is a fiercely debated topic in the UK where it is currently illegal to assist someone to end their life. Champions of changing the law cite the limitations of palliative care to handle suffering, while change’s opponents fear it would pressure elderly, disabled and …
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Extent to Which Social Workers Use NASW Ethical Standards
… in the form of illness, injury, abuse/neglect, dying and death. The nature of families, complexity of medicine, ongoing technological advances and the commodification of health care create complicated ethical considerations for these social workers. These facts and my experience with ethical …
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Exploring life changes for patients diagnosed with 'Alcoholic Liver Disease' - A qualitative study in Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's thought.
… out-patients, provided a foundation to understand ‘alcoholic'. By applying Thematic Analysis within the social constructivism tradition at the initial analysis phase, combined with phenomenological-existential theories as a framework to bracket and generate socially shared meanings from the …
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Navigating the Cathexis: Mothers and Daughters and End of Life
This dissertation begins with women's lives and examines the experience of mothering (and daughtering) across the full continuum of women's lives, including the end of their lives. Specifically, my work focuses on the cathexis, the specific flow of energy that moves between mothers and daughters as …
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Literature and Medicine: A Teaching Model for the Students and Practitioners of
The subspecialty of literature and medicine is significant, not only as a supplement to an education in biomedicine and science, but also as a serious engagement in the pursuit of humane feeling essential in the cultivation of health professionals. I aim to convince the instructors of medicine and …
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A Phenomenological Study of Health Professionals’ Perceptions of Good and Bad Pediatric Hospital Deaths, Self-Care Needs and Lingering Distress
<p>The death of a child is devastating. Although death is a part of every life, a child dying seems out of order in current times and in the context of Western Healthcare. Health professionals (HP) caring for dying children frequently report suffering. In the past four decades, HP have been …
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Children's Hospice Care
… in medical technology, the mechanics of dying and death has changed significantly. Centuries ago, people mostly died of infectious diseases. From the time they were diagnosed, to the time of their death did not take long. Today, public health has improved remarkably. We have a better …
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ELDERLY PERSONS LIVING WITH CANCER. Quality of life and lived experience.
… decades, the numbers of elderly will increase, and through improved lifestyles and better treatment longevity has increased, and with it, the risk of contracting cancer. How elderly people live with cancer has until now attracted limited research. The overall aim of this thesis was to …
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UNDERSTANDING NURSES’ EXPERIENCES OF PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE CARE IN THE UNITED STATES HOSPITAL SETTING
Nurses perform a vital role in the care of dying patients and their families. Hence, experiences of nurses are a meaningful source from which to advance holistic end-of-life care. In this study, a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective was used to explore the phenomenon of end-of-life nursing …