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Khan, Momina – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2021
Cultural and faith-based narratives live in our skins and personal lives. Each body is tied to the stories that are written on it, and thus the body and the soul within it are central to our coming to know of tears, wounds, pain, and suffering. Using autobiographical narrative inquiry and poetry, I share my lived experiences and encounters with…
Descriptors: Pain, Experience, Minority Groups, Ethics
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Janz, Heidi L. – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2009
The paper examines the language used to describe pain and surgery in the trials and the media discussions of the killing of Tracy Latimer by her father. Descriptions of proposed surgical procedures, that were planned before Tracy was killed, exaggerate the intrusiveness of surgeries to be performed so as to suggest that surgery would be worse than…
Descriptors: Surgery, Pain, Cerebral Palsy, Parent Role
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Fox, Patricia; Solomon, Patricia; Raina, Parminder; Jadad, Alejandro R. – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2004
The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to the management of pain in long-term care institutions. Formal caregivers practising in four long-term care institutions in Hamilton, Ontario participated in eight focus groups. Participants included 6 physicians, 19 registered nurses, 8 registered practical nurses, 13 health care aides and 8…
Descriptors: Patients, Caregivers, Pain, Medical Care Evaluation