Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description This module is most essentially about suffering. It is about direct experiences of suffering and ‘what it is like’ to suffer in various health care contexts. It is about responses to suffering and what persons do in acknowledging or denying the lived realities of distress and adversity. It is about how persons ‘keep going’ or ‘hang on’ during times of suffering, and the various implications of ‘survivorship’. And it is about how persons hope when they suffer, what influences such hope and how this can be significant for their futures. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Discuss the meanings and significance of suffering in healthcare contexts 2. Explore responses to suffering in health care by reference to institutional, discursive, interpersonal and personal issues 3. Evaluate notions of resistance and acceptance as they relate to persons who are suffering in health care contexts 4. Explore the meanings and implications of survival in health care 5. Explore the significance of hope and the conditions in which it is promoted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
SufferingThe meanings of suffering and its significance in health care; suffering and narrativity; suffering as loss of self; suffering and the body; normativity and suffering; technology, medicalisation and suffering; praxis theory of suffering.Suffering and the OtherSuffering as a call to the Other;institutional denial and acknowledgement; social systems as a defence against anxiety; bystanding and whistleblowing; persecution and disregarding the Face of the Other; sufferer-led care.Resistance and acceptancePathologising resistance; taking a stand on one's own being; resistance and contingency; identity entrapment; downward and upward acceptance; mindfulness.SurvivalStoicism; enduring for the Other; religion and survival; storying survival; survivor activismHopeConcepts of hope; survival and hope;hope and demoralization; anxiety-inflected hope;the placebo in health care; hope, health and achievement; conditions for hopefulness; critiques of positive thinking. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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