TY - BOOK
T1 - Medical Humanities, sociology and the suffering self
T2 - Surviving Health
AU - Lowe, Wendy
PY - 2020/12/23
Y1 - 2020/12/23
N2 - Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe makes a compelling argument for how the medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and properties of suffering and what is at stake. Lowe demonstrates through analysis of major healthcare workforce issues and incidence of burnout how key policies and practices influence healthcare education and experiences of both patients and health professionals. By including first person narratives from health professionals as a tool and resource, she illustrates how dominant ideas about the self enter practice as a refusal of suffering. Demonstrating the relationship between personal experience, theory and research, Lowe argues for a pedagogy of suffering that shows how the moral anguish implicit in suffering is an ethical response of the emergent self. This is an important read for all those interested in medical humanities, health professional education, person-centred care and the sociology of health and illness.
AB - Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe makes a compelling argument for how the medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and properties of suffering and what is at stake. Lowe demonstrates through analysis of major healthcare workforce issues and incidence of burnout how key policies and practices influence healthcare education and experiences of both patients and health professionals. By including first person narratives from health professionals as a tool and resource, she illustrates how dominant ideas about the self enter practice as a refusal of suffering. Demonstrating the relationship between personal experience, theory and research, Lowe argues for a pedagogy of suffering that shows how the moral anguish implicit in suffering is an ethical response of the emergent self. This is an important read for all those interested in medical humanities, health professional education, person-centred care and the sociology of health and illness.
KW - health professional education
KW - Medical Education
KW - Health Care Reform
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Medical-Humanities--Sociology-an-d-the-Suffering-Self-Surviving-Health/Lowe/p/book/9780367321413
U2 - 10.4324/9780429316937
DO - 10.4324/9780429316937
M3 - Book
SN - 978-0-367-32141-3
SN - 0367321416
T3 - Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
BT - Medical Humanities, sociology and the suffering self
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -