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Palliat Support Care
September 2024
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
In her book (2021, University of Minnesota Press), author Ranae Lenor Hanson poses the question: What if we cared for the strained earth as tenderly as we care for a human body in a medical crisis? Using the metaphor of diabetes to explore the climate crisis, Hanson weaves stories from her climate-refugee and urban climate-affected students with those of Minnesota watersheds that have provided a nurturing web for her life. In this article, four former students whose stories appear in the book reflected on their reactions to .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis enquiry considers how the dignity of the frail elderly is objectively grounded, socially constructed, and subjectively experienced. The lives of the frail trouble public consciousness. A terror of old age, felt by young or old, is liable to form a toxic affective culture of social death.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmanda Bumgarner knows about babies. As a pediatric nurse in Richmond, VA, she's spent her working life consoling sleep-deprived parents, administering shots to screaming infants, and tenderly attending to the needs of fragile premature babies, often in the most heartbreaking and dire circumstances. When she gave birth to a little girl of her own, she wasn't expecting any surprises but two weeks into motherhood, she knew something wasn't right.
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July 2016
Professor, Hunter College of the City University of New York
The story of an El Salvadorian women made pregnant by a rape while immigrating to the United States is discussed from a humanbecoming paradigm perspective. Nursing practice from such a paradigm is seen as the opposite of such a violent crime and injustice, because it seeks to tenderly respect and provide for the dignity and freedom of all people.
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