Recurrence of cancer: a crisis of courage.
Although much is written about biomedical progress in the treatment of cancer, less attention is paid to personal struggles for self-affirmation when faced with the reality of recurrence. Through the use of the narrative as a technique for disclosing embedded meaning in the world of ordinary events, courage emerges as the distinguishing phenomenon of self-affirming potential. Three accounts of actual persons living the crisis of recurrence illustrate opportunities for professional caregivers to find enrichment through their encounters in practice.
Rawnsley
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College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612-4799.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D005086:Existentialism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D012649:Self Concept