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Living with clipped wings—Patients’ experience of losing a leg

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2013
This study explores the lived experience of losing a leg as described by the patients themselves post-discharge. Studies have documented that regardless of aetiology patients are faced with severe physical as well as psychosocial challenges post ...
Annelise Norlyk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lived experiences of everyday life during curative radiotherapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: A phenomenological study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2015
Aim: To explore and describe the essential meaning of lived experiences of the phenomenon: Everyday life during curative radiotherapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Suzanne Petri, Connie B. Berthelsen
doaj   +1 more source

Digital world, lifeworld, and the phenomenology of corporeality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The contemporary world is characterised by the pervasive presence of digital technologies that play a part in almost every aspect of our life. An urgent and much-debated issue consists in evaluating the repercussions of these technologies on our human ...
Pace Giannotta, Andrea
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Parents’ perspectives on supporting children during needle-related medical procedures

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2014
When children endure needle-related medical procedures (NRMPs), different emotions arise for the child and his/her parents. Despite the parents’ own feelings, they have a key role in supporting their child through these procedures.
Katarina Karlsson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Book Review: Reflective Lifeworld Research

open access: yesIndo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 2010
Book Review by Prevan Moodley: Reflective Lifeworld Research Dahlberg, K., Dahlberg, H., & Nyström, M. (2008). Reflective Lifeworld Research (2nd ed.). Lund, Sweden: Studentlitteratur.
openaire   +1 more source

Medical pluralism and kincentric care in Indigenous Australia: Yanyuwa experiences of illness and the importance of keeping company

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract For over four decades we have collaborated as a team of anthropologists and Indigenous Elders of the Yanyuwa language group. The Yanyuwa are the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. While medicalized healthcare has not been our specific research focus, wellness and ill health have been recurring themes ...
Amanda Kearney   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Erased by law: Kinship, care, and bureaucratic exclusion at the end of life in South Korea

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how institutional frameworks in South Korea erase nonlegal caregiving relationships within hospice care environments. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic fieldwork, the study delineates how patients are categorized as “unclaimed” despite the presence of long‐term companions or cohabitants who provide intimate end‐of ...
Seok Joo Youn
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing Eco‐Responsible National Identities Through Collective Memory: Settler and Māori Histories of Environmental Change in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing body of scholarship argues that collective memories of historical environmental change—formed and transmitted through museums, movies, novels, activist performances and other cultural texts and practices—can help nurture proenvironmentalism.
Olli Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approach to Studying Nurses’ Duty and Fear in Armed Conflict

open access: yesNurse Educators and Practitioners Journal
Introduction: Nurses in conflict zones face an impossible tension — they are expected to keep delivering care even as their own lives are at risk. Most existing research has documented outcomes like PTSD, but far less attention has been paid to how ...
Athina Karla C. Chia, RN, MAN, LPT, PhD
doaj   +1 more source

“I look at my own forest and fields in a different way”: the lived experience of nature-based therapy in a therapy garden when suffering from stress-related illness

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2017
Evidence confirms that nature-based therapy (NBT) has a positive effect on people with mental illnesses. However, there is a lack of evidence on the meaning of NBT for specific patient groups.
Ulrik Sidenius   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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