Socio-Psychological Impacts of Terminal Illness on  Patients and their Spousal Relationship

This phenomenological study was conducted to explore the im- pacts of terminal illness on patients and familial relationships of couples in Pakhtun society. 36 terminally ill patients selected purposively were interviewed separately (24 male & 12 female patients) by the way of open-ended questions. Numerous themes were extracted following verbatim transcripts. All the participants explained the impacts of terminal illness on their social lives and the positive and negative aspects of their spousal relationship. Depression, anger and desperation were apparent in the terminal patients. Similarly bitterness, guilt, persistent sadness and loss were common in the patients and alternatively in their partners as explained by the patients. This research highlights adistinct viewpoint on the damaging influences which terminal illness can have on the marital rela- tionship. However it also recommends how to deal the situation in apositive manner by making adjustments required by the concerned disease. The findings indicate that social scientists need to confess and reply to the incredible psycho-social im- pacts that serious illnesses and related medical procedures can have on the patients and their families even in this modern era of advance technology. Advance social and psychotherapeutic techniques and socio-psychological support of partners can as- sist such patients to live with apositive life style till the end.

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Introduction

Conflict and Society ◽

10.3167/arcs.2017.030106 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 73-77

Author(s):

Ronald S. Stade

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Creative Thinking ◽

Political Correctness ◽

Research Area ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Social Lives ◽

Political Conflicts ◽

The Social ◽

Temporal And Spatial ◽

The Military

Concepts have cultural biographies and social lives. Some concepts become social and political keywords that can be both indicative of and instrumental in social and political conflicts. (It might even be possible to speak of conceptual violence.) But they are not just contentious; they also tend to be contested. Contentious and contested concepts have been studied by historians and social scientists from varying temporal and spatial horizons. It is a research area that lends itself to cross-disciplinary approaches, as is demonstrated in the three contributions to this section, the first of which investigates the Russian obsession with the concept of “Europe.” The second contribution to the section explores the military roots of the concept of “creative thinking,” and the final contribution examines the social life of “political correctness” as a fighting word.

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Ever decreasing circles: terminal illness, empowerment and decision-making

Journal of Primary Health Care ◽

10.1071/hc10130 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 130 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Kate Richardson ◽

Rod MacLeod ◽

Bridie Kent

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Terminal Illness ◽

Phenomenological Study ◽

Terminally Ill ◽

Power Sharing ◽

Political Processes ◽

Palliative Care Setting ◽

Self Worth

INTRODUCTION: Empowerment is the personal and political processes patients go through to enhance and restore their sense of dignity and self-worth. However, there is much rhetoric surrounding nurses facilitating patients daily choices and enabling empowerment. Furthermore, there is frequently an imbalance of power sharing, with the patient often obliged to do what the health professional wants them to do. METHOD: This phenomenological study describes the lived experience of patients attending an outpatient clinic of a community hospice. A qualitative study using Max van Manens phenomenological hermeneutic method was conducted to explore issues surrounding empowerment and daily decisionmaking with terminally ill patients. The participants stories became a stimulus for learning about the complexities of autonomy and empowerment. It also engendered reflection and analysis of issues related to power and control inequities in current nursing practices. FINDINGS: The results revealed not only the themes of chaoticum, contracting worlds and capitulation, but that health professionals should be mindful of the level of control they exert. Within the palliative care setting they need to become partners in care, enhancing another persons potential for autonomous choice. CONCLUSION: Empowerment must not be something that simply occurs from within, nor can it be done by another. Intentional efforts by health professionals must enable terminally ill people to be able to stay enlivened and connected with a modicum of autonomy and empowerment over daily decisions, no matter how mundane or monumental they might be. KEYWORDS: Phenomenology; empowerment; autonomy; terminal care; decision-making

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Trust and Distrust

10.1093/oso/9780198796244.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Knights

Keyword(s):

Distinctive Feature ◽

East India Company ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Long Period ◽

History Of ◽

Large Readership ◽

Modern Era ◽

Imperial State ◽

Do So

The book offers the first overview of Britain’s history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600–1850. As such, it is intended to appeal to historians but also to political and social scientists, whose work is extensively cited in an expansive and evaluative bibliography. Another distinctive feature of the book is the interaction of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office—a key argument is that these were intertwined and related. Linking corruption in office to the domestic and imperial state has not been attempted before, and the book makes extensive use of material relating to the East India Company as well as other colonial officials in the Atlantic world and elsewhere in Britain’s emerging empire. Both ‘corruption’ and ‘office’ were evolving concepts during the period 1600–1850 and underwent very significant but protracted change which the book charts and seeks to explain. To do so, the book makes innovative use of the concept of trust, which helped to shape office in ways that underlined principles of selflessness, disinterestedness, integrity, and accountability of officials. The reader’s report suggested that ‘no historian of this long period can afford to ignore the book, and it will certainly appeal to a large readership not only among historians of Britain and its empire but among political scientists more generally’. There is a brief concluding section highlighting policy implications.

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Screened Conversations

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology ◽

10.5840/techne20141308 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 333-349

Author(s):

Bonnie Talbert ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Social Interactions ◽

Mental States ◽

The Internet ◽

Philosophical Argument ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Face To Face ◽

Social Lives ◽

Networking Technologies ◽

Coming To Know

Social scientists have documented some recent, dramatic changes in the nature of our social lives. Many scholars have thought that our reliance on technology to communicate with others is in large part responsible for that loss. However, there is also data to support the opposite conclusion—it might be the case that social networking technologies have helped, rather than hindered our social interactions. What I would like to propose is a philosophical argument, which I hope will offer a different sort of answer to the questions about whether we know people in the same ways, or perhaps more or less well, than we once did, in the days before Facebook, email, and such. Whether or not technology has enhanced our social lives, it is worth considering whether coming to know another person is a different sort of exercise than it used to be, when face-to-face interactions with others were the preferred way to find out what was going on in someone else’s life. What is different in sharing my thoughts, beliefs, feelings, desires, and such with another over the Internet versus in person? Is there any kind of knowledge that is available only in a face-to-face context? If so, what is the nature of that knowledge? In philosophical terms, what I want to examine is how our knowledge of others’ minds changes with various technologies that we use to communicate the contents of our mental states.

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Experiences of sexuality and intimacy in terminal illness: A phenomenological study

Palliative Medicine ◽

10.1177/0269216313519489 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 28 (5) ◽

pp. 438-447 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Bridget Taylor

Keyword(s):

Terminal Illness ◽

Phenomenological Study

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"Introduction: Debating Corruption and Anticorruption in History, "in Anticorruption in History: Antiquity to the Modern Era (Oxford University Press, 2017), 1-17

10.34055/osf.io/wn5qp ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

D.B.R. Kroeze ◽

André Miguel de Cunha Vitória ◽

Guy Geltner

Keyword(s):

Historical Development ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Political Issue ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Oxford University ◽

Political Crises ◽

The World ◽

Good Government ◽

History Of ◽

Modern Era

The introduction to this volume focuses on historiography, methodology and conclusions. It explains how anticorruption has seldom been treated as a historical subject except as the occasional counterpart of corruption; instead, policy makers and social scientists have linked anticorruption and good government to the historical development of democracy and Weberian-style bureaucracy, all emblematic aspects of countries consistently ranked among the least corrupt in the world. This hypothesis has struck most historians involved in this volume as either circular or at least teleological. In response, they have sought to show that efforts to control corruption are not an exclusively Western-European or modern phenomenon; rather, the history of anticorruption is far more complex and diverse. In addition, they also outline how anticorruption is an inherently political issue, related to changing power relations and acute political crises, and that fighting corruption is historically difficult to evaluate in terms of success or failure.

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Significance of Professionalism in Curriculum Development and Research Process

International Journal of Learning and Development ◽

10.5296/ijld.v2i5.2161 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (5) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Muhammad Mushtaq

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Research Process ◽

Learning Activity ◽

Main Theme ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Professional Characteristics ◽

Course Of Action ◽

The People ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Modern Era

Professionalism is usually considered the expertise, skill and knowledge of that particular field first, and its application effectively and efficiently than. The curriculum professionals are the people who are associated with teaching and learning activity and they suggest the course of action by taking aims and objectives prescribed by the state. They need to have knowledge of various educational, ideological, sociological and psychological foundations to meet the change and challenges of the post modern era. Their professional characteristics and significance has been discussed, analysed and assessed by the views of social scientists of different countries in the coming paragraphs. Finally the expertise they need, factors that affect them, major consideration they had to take into account in developing curriculum for the futures is presented as main theme of the article. In the end the effects of globalisation, internationalisation and information and communication technology which is changing in great speed and strength play a significant role in development of curriculum in this century.

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