Augmenting the Cartesian medical discourse with an understanding of the person's lifeworld, lived body, life story and social identity: Original article

Nursing Philosophy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 241-252

  Sunvisson, Helena ^a   Habermann, Barbara ^b   Weiss, Sara ^c   Benner, Patricia ^d  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Marin General Hospital   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiving imagination; Embodiment; Lifeworld; Lived experience of illness; Parkinson's Disease; Social identity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; CONTROL; COST OF ILLNESS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST OF ILLNESS; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; SELF CONCEPT; SICK ROLE;

EID: 69949113487     PISSN: 14667681     EISSN: 1466769X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-769X.2009.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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