Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care

Name: Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health CareAround Recovery\nAuthor(s): Stephen Buetow\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367322113, 978-0367322113\nSynopsis\nThis book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience. Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care is a fascinating contribution to the multidisciplinary literature on person-centred health care, pain and ethics.\n\nTraditionally, Western intellectual culture has downplayed the intuitive and emotional, promoting instead rational, natural-scientific perspectives. Applied to pain, an instrumental approach promotes the immediate and effective relief of pain, due to the widespread suffering and expense it can cause. However, different persons experience pain in different ways and Buetow moves beyond a commitment to eliminate pain to exploring ho.