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.
College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612-4799.
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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