Listening To Patients

Sandra P. Thomas, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor and Director of the PhD Program in Nursing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Howard R. Pollio, PhD, is Alumni Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Preface

Acknowledgments

I. Phenomenology and Nursing

The Patient, the Nurse, and the Philosopher: Seeing Rose Through the Eyes of Merleau-Ponty

If a Lion Could Talk: Phenomenological Interviewing and Interpretation


II. Nursing and the Human Experience of the Human Body

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


III. Nursing and the Human Experience of Other People

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


IV. Nursing and the Human Experience of Time

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


V. Nursing and the Human Experience of the World

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


Epilogue

References

Index