The Illness Experience and Professional Reflections Of Medical Staff Who Suffered from Cancer

• Main Authors: Hui-chuan Liu, 劉慧娟
• Other Authors: Chang-hsiung Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38270823026062608081

碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學研究所 === 94 === 　　The main purpose of this research is to explore the sickness experience of medical professionals who fall ill with cancer and are confronted with death .The researcher approaches this issue with methods based on Hermeneutical Phenomenology and the body ontology of Merleau-Ponty as the meta-theory, to analyze the description of three participants'' sickness experience. 　 　　The change of the patients'' corporeal schema caused by the intrusion of disease and the subjective sensational experience of being ill, are both undescribable inner perception especially the shift of the sense of time and space which happens to a cancer patient when facing his death. Beside, it is also under observation how much realization of patients'' suffering can come to the mind of such medical professionals, who get close to patients every day and observe the physical and mental damage done by the disease. 　 　　This research takes the viewpoint of the double identity of the medical professionals who are sick. They reveal the different observations which happen between fatal patients who go through chaotic physical and sensational perception, and those clinical medical care-takers, so as to reflect upon the essential caring of nurse.