Qualitative Health Research. 13 4 5...
Qualitative Health Research. 13 4 510-527 Suffering is an experience of the whole person--body animating principle and spirit--and occurs when any vital facet of our self being or existence is threatened. Nevertheless, while suffering commonly features in day-to-day nursing engagements little is discussed between succors or in nursing literature. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, this paper provides an analysis of 14 scientific articles forward the live experience of breast cancer, published in nursing/caring journals between 1990 and 2000 where suffering was described,
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